§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Transport if he will state the number, value and nature of shipbuilding and ship repairing contracts placed by the South African Government in Britain during the last ten years, indicating in each case the shipyards with which these contracts were placed.
§ Mr. MarplesTwenty ships (harbour craft and naval vessels) worth, I am informed, £18.5m. The shipyards were Ferguson Brothers; Yarrow; Alexander Stephen; Harland and Wolff (Belfast); Whites; Camper and Nicholson; Thorneycroft; Vosper; Dorset Lake.
Similar information on ship repairing is not centrally available.