An assembly government spokesman said its services to assist workers leaving Hoover to find either new skills or suitable alternative employment would comeintooperation when it knew exactly who would need them.
Mr Bell said nothing would happen in the immediate future because there was a lot of work to do and night flights would comeintooperation over the next three to five years.
Then, they say, when the scheme did eventually comeintooperation, the government simply stopped spending the money it already had on basic rations and medical care and used it for other things instead.
"She got some money from the writer because the writer took the view that without her co-operation, this book would not have comeinto existence at all, " he said.