§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Minister of Technology (1) whether he will list the Government industrial establishments in which numerically controlled machine tools have been established, with the number of such machine tools in each establishment;
(2) how many of each main type of numerically controlled machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines and so on, have been installed in Government industrial establishments;
185W(3) how many of the numerically controlled machine tools in Government industrial establishments have point-to-point control; how many have continuous-path, two-dimensional and three-dimensional control; and how many are controlled by punched tape, magnetic tape and punched cards, respectively;
(4) how many of the numerically controlled machine tools in Government industrial establishments have control systems of foreign manufacture or design; and from which countries these systems come.
§ Mr. BennInformation is not readily available in the great detail requested. My Department is about to undertake a review of the machine tool holdings of major Government establishments, which should provide some of it, and I will circulate this when available in the OFFICIAL REPORT. Meanwhile if my hon. Friend has any particular point in mind, perhaps he would write to me about it.