To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what payments (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made to Peninsula Business Services since May 1998. (144533)

Central records indicate that no payments have been made to Peninsula Business Services in any of the last five financial years.

I have asked the chief executives of the executive agencies to respond directly to the hon. Member.

Further information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.