Cardigan Bay Firing Range

HC Deb 26 July 1977 vol 936 cc165-6W

Mr. Sproat

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about the incident in which a Soviet trawler in the area of live firing of Sea

Local Authority	Houses below tolerable standard at 31st December 1976	unfit houses demolished or closed1976–77
HIGHLAND REGION—
Caithness	…	…	…	…	481	65
Sutherland	…	…	…	…	505	5
Ross and Cromarty	…	…	…	…	2,838	2
Skye and Lochalsh	…	…	…	…	1,122	—
Lochaber	…	…	…	…	511	—
Inverness	…	…	…	…	1,746	9
Badenoch and Strathspey	…	…	…	…	73	2
Nairn	…	…	…	…	100	1
GRAMPIAN REGION—
Moray	…	…	…	…	2,342	100
Banff and Buchan	…	…	…	…	3,166	N.A.
Gordon	…	…	…	…	1,172	33
City of Aberdeen	…	…	…	…	7,808	171
Kincardine and Deeside	…	…	…	…	715	24

Dart missiles off Aberporth held up Sea Dart tests.

Mr. Duffy

The authority which controls all range firings in Cardigan Bay cannot trace any record of a security inhibition during the period 21st March to 31st March, the only occasion when Sea Dart firings took place recently.