HC Deb 27 February 1975 vol 887 cc237-8W
Mr. Skeet

asked the Secretary of State for Trade, following the abandonment of the Maplin airport project, which local authorities he has consulted for their views on the way the future London area air traffic should be handled.

Mr. Clinton Davis

As a first stage in the consultation process, my Department has written to 125 local authorities and other bodies, including metropolitan and non-metropolitan county councils and

owned companies operating in Great Britain are American.

Mr. Deakins

The latest available information is that at the end of 1971 there were in the United Kingdom about 1,450 branches, subsidiaries and associates directly affiliated to American companies, excluding any in oil, banking and insurance. This estimate was published in Table 44 of Business Monitor M4, Overseas Transactions, a copy of which is in the Library. A separate estimate is not available for the number of subsidiary companies indirectly affiliated to American companies.