§ 154. Mr. Juddasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many civilian employees have left Her Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth, during the past year for employment elsewhere; from which categories these employees have mainly come; and how their dockyard take-home pay compared with that of people doing similar work in civilian firms in the Portsmouth area.
§ Mr. J. P. W. MallalieuAbout, 1,000, including about 100 non-industrial, about 350 craftsmen and about 550 non-craft grades. We have no figures for average earnings within the Portsmouth area outside the dockyard.
§ Mr. Juddasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will conduct a survey to discover what equipment and manpower in Her Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth, could be suitably utilised for the production of capital equipment for export or for overseas aid projects; and what equipment and manpower could be utilised for projects in Great Britain such as industrialised building techniques.
§ Mr. J. P. W. MallalieuThe machine tools and plant in Portsmouth Dockyard are designed primarily for ship repair work, and to undertake the sort of work suggested would call for extensive capital re-equipment. In view of the present and prospective work load of the Dockyard on naval account, this would not be justified.