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The Auditor General said that the project was"unlikely to be delivered by the target date of … 2011."The issue of target dates in relation to the EARL project was already very much up in the air.
Under the current regulations, if someone is 86 but they put down a date of birth that brings them out as being 85, that is a clear failure and the vote will not be counted.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 November 2007
I accept that Mr Banks has used old vessels, but the investment that he has made in the new ship must mean that the future is looking good and that the route is profitable.
One of the other commitments made in the coalition agreement is to establish a green investment bank. That may have been the subject of your next question.
We can say to people, “You thought that that power station would take eight years to build and that you would have to spend three years sucking up to the World Bank to get the funding. Actually, you can have it in eight weeks.
We come back to the point that although such flats fall into a holiday-let category, they are a bad-neighbour development because most holiday lets co-exist with normal residential properties.
We have given a big boost by cutting regulation and addressing the supply of finance, with the Green Investment Bank and the British Business Bank. On technology, we have invested £1 billion in broadband and mobile infrastructure.