§ 28. Mr. Cleggasked the Minister of Public Building and Works what proportion of the resources of the building industry was engaged in new construction overseas in 1966 to the latest convenient date: and what proportion he estimates will be so engaged in the next 12 months.
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§ Mr. MellishThe value of work done by contractors overseas in the year ending March 1966 was £169 million, and in the year ending March 1967 this was £172 million.
In addition, British Consulting Engineers were employed on work overseas valued at £1,416 million on 1st January, 1967 and by the end of this year this figure will be about £1,600 million.
I cannot estimate what the figures will be of work done for the next 12 months, but I hope that every effort will be made by British consultants, contractors, and producers of building materials to gain orders abroad.