Member

Amendment 290 is about procuring services in the private sector. I am not suggesting that we go back to the old days of the railway. Take London Underground, for example. In the old days, it manufactured everything. It had huge depots at Earl’s Court and, if you wanted a new bench for your station, you did not go out and buy a bench for the station; you summoned up the workshop and it would make a bench in Earl’s Court to go on your station. If you wanted a new roundel to go on the wall, it would be made for you. Catastrophically, it would make the lifts as well, and it would take simply ages, at huge expense, to install the lifts. All that was got rid of.