Utilities Regulation

Mr. Breed
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what plans she has to revise the regulatory set-up for the utilities; and if she will make a sttaement. [8645]

Mrs. Beckett
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Delyn (Mr. Hanson) on 30 June 1997, Official Report, columns 20–21.