§ Mr. Trotterasked the Secretary of State for Industry why Spillers Foods Ltd. has been given an industrial development certificate to extend its factory at Wisbech in order to transfer to it the work at present carried out at its factory at North Shields which is to be closed with a resulting loss of some 350 jobs.
Mr. Alan WilliamsBefore giving the industrial development certificate I was satisfied that the Company was convinced that the North Shields factory would have to close in any case. Granting the IDC enabled Spillers to keep the North Shields factory open several months longer than it otherwise intended.