Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Tony Baldry Excerpts
Thursday 18th October 2012

(11 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord McLoughlin Portrait Mr McLoughlin
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I referred in my answer to the estimates that I gave to the House on Monday. They are the best available estimates at the moment, and that is why I will stick by them.

Tony Baldry Portrait Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con)
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Should not the Opposition be enjoined first to cast the beam out of their own eyes, so that they are better able to take out the mote from their brother’s eye? From the way they bang on about this, one would have thought that Labour in government never wasted a single penny, but the National Audit Office found that it wasted £40 million on an asylum accommodation centre in my constituency where a single sod was never turned and a brick never laid, and we never had a single apology for that.