Transport: Fuel Prices

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe Excerpts

Thursday 24th November 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Wilcox]

No, I do not know the answer to that question about the last time that it looked. All I know is that it will constantly be looking and if there is enough worry around the area it will, I am sure, look at it.

[Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe]

Will the noble Baroness confirm that the number of staff engaged by the Office of Fair Trading has been reduced?

[Baroness Wilcox]

I would imagine that everybody is tightening their belts. No doubt it, too, has had to reduce, as have all government departments following the terrible debts that we incurred when we came into government.