That is exactly right. Often things such as water rates do not appear in the retail prices index and the other formulae used by the Government. I ask the Minister to relay to his DEFRA and Treasury ministerial colleagues that this issue is causing a great deal of hardship, and it looks like it will get worse.
Easter Adjournment
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Browning
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 March 2007.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Easter Adjournment.
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