HC Deb 12 November 1969 vol 791 cc107-8W
Mr. Woof

asked the Minister of Technology when he now expects the Wylfa nuclear power station to be in

1967–68 1968–69 1969–70
Expenditure Expenditure Estimate
£000 NET £000 NET £000 NET
Industrial Liaison Centres … 135 206 250
Production Engineering Advisory Service … 330 157 175
Group Technology Centre … 8 18 85
Law-Cost Automation Advisory Centres … 20 51 100
SIRAID* … 5
Industrial Development Unit, Bangor … 5 15
Numerical control Advisory and Demonstration Service … — 244 420
National Computing Centre … 797 550 900
APACE … 78 119 150
British Calibration Service … 51 65 50
National Centre for Tribology (Risley) … 5 83 120
Industrial Unit for Tribology, Leeds … — 23 40
Industrial Unit for Tribology, Swansea … — — 18
Materials Technology Bureau (Harwell) … — 10 30
Isotape Advisory and Experimental Service (Wantage) … 30 30 20
Harwell Ceramics Centre … 210 401 350
Industrial Application Unit, RRE … 30 28 16
Electronic Materials Development Unit, RRE … — 28 68
Advisory Service on Special Glasses … — 1 2
Non-destructive Testing Centre (Harwell) … 142 172 135
Central Unit for Scientific Photography (RAE) … 280 270 292
2,159 2,521 3,138
NOTE:
* The running expenses of the service are found from the general grant made to B.S.I.R.A. by the Department (see PQ 4492) figures above reflect a pump-priming grant made to extend the scheme.
* It is expected that the service will become self-supporting during the current year.

operation; what delay that represents by comparison with the original estimate; and what has been the increase in the estimated capital costs.

Mr. Alan Williams

The C.E.G.B. expects Wylfa to come into commercial operation in March, 1970, compared with the initial estimate of late November, 1968. The increase in the C.E.G.B.'s estimate of cost is £10/KW.