The hon. Gentleman is mixing his figures. Nobody is disputing £270,000-odd as the annual cost of running the board. That is not the reason for abolishing it. The purpose of abolition, as we have tried to say, is to release the industry and free it up to increase employment opportunities.
Public Bodies Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)
Proceeding contribution from
James Paice
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 25 October 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Bodies Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2).
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