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I want to draw our discussion to a close. Do members wish to add anything new? No. Do members agree that my suggestions and Stewart Stevenson's suggestions are the key points?
There has been an expansion of child care, with 243,000 children—28 per cent of all children aged up to 14 and a 7 per cent increase on the previous year—now receiving formal care.
Such road works probably cause around 6 to 7 per cent of all congestion. Working on the assumption that much of the work that is currently going on will still be undertaken after the laying of new regulations, what impact do you anticipate that the bill will have on reducing the amount of congestion attributable to t...
In September, we announced that health spending would go on increasing at record levels to nearly £7 billion a year by 2003-04; that means £1.2 billion extra over the next three years, on top of this year's record increase.
I add that there is scope not only for tinkering but for quite substantial change. The debate on the need for new primary legislation and a new procedure is no doubt worth having, but we have concentrated on trying to suggest improvements to the current procedures.