HC Deb 29 January 1973 vol 849 cc293-4W
Mr. William Rodgers

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will break down Concorde expenditure estimates contained in Cmnd. Paper No.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 1969–70 TO 1974–75 (COMMAND 4578)
1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75
Development 48.8 52.1 43.2 31.1 21.0 16.0
Production 5.4 13.5 25.0 50.0 51.0 16.0
Total 54.2 65.6 68.2 81.1 72.0 32.0

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 1970–71 TO 1975–76 (COMMAND 4829)
1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76
Development 58.6 54.0 37.1 28.3 22 16
Production 7.2 21.0 50.0 65.0 53 -12
Total 65.8 75.0 87.1 93.3 75 4

in the North-West Region, giving the size in square feet, the location and the rate of unemployment when the advance factory was announced and the current rate; and how this total, expressed as a percentage, compares with the total for Scotland, for Wales and for the nation as a whole.

Mr. Anthony Grant

The information immediately available relates only to advance factories built by the Department of Trade and Industry in the North-West Region since 1959. This is listed below:

4578 and Cmnd. Paper No. 4829 between development and production.

Mr. Onslow

The estimates for Concorde expenditure in these Command Papers were divided between development and production as follows: