Does my right hon. Friend agree that a lot of what is being proposed is window dressing, in the sense that even closing down bodies such as the Audit Commission will cost some £400 million in pension liabilities and winding up other assets? When we look at some of those organisations in detail, we see that the payback period might not come for, say, 10 years.
Public Bodies Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Beamish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12 July 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Bodies Bill [Lords].
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