HC Deb 14 December 1998 vol 322 c362W
Mr. Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans his Department has to contract with the armed services to provide emergency cover over the millennium period; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that cover. [62578]

Mr. Mandelson

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) on 7 December 1998,Official Report, column 20.