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If there is a need for that guidance to be considered again, I can certainly give Mary Scanlon an assurance that the Government will consider a request that we do so.
She gave assurances to try to allay the fears that seem to be coming through. I am sometimes amused by Mary Scanlon’s remarks in the chamber but, for one minute there, I thought that I was listening to “Dad’s Army”, because it sounded as if we are doomed.
Yes, we are having on-going discussions with the housing associations. As Mary Fee has just heard, that is one of the keys to avoiding some of the great difficulties that we currently see in some parts of England.
That has been scaled down from the £70 million that was originally reported. Mary Scanlon said that, in the stuff that she looked at, the Crown post offices were said to run at a loss of £46 million.
It is a model whose authors, in evidence last session, admitted that it was as reliable as weather forecasting—a model according to which, as Mary Scanlon pointed out, the real data applied retrospectively do not match its predictions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 April 2008
I imagine that the route to which Mary Mulligan referred is one of those that the Competition Commission considered when FirstGroup applied to withdraw services to which it had committed in a previous undertaking.