Parliament: Questions and Answers

Wine drinking

THE GOVERNMENT has spent pounds 192,604 on wine, with the average bottle costing pounds 11.72 since coming to power last May, Foreign Office minister Derek Fatchett disclosed.

Good causes

THE AMOUNT of National Lottery money going to good causes has reached pounds 6.6bn, Sports minister Tony Banks said.

Woodlands

A NEW set of priorities for managing England's woodland was published yesterday, Agriculture minister Elliot Morley said.