§ 26. Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Defence what estimates he has now made of the employment effects of the recent decision to cut expenditure on the Sea King replacement helicopter programme.
§ Mr. SpeedThe total of jobs directly engaged in this programme in British industry has been reduced by about 385 as a result of the decision taken to reduce expenditure with effect from 1 October 1980. The latest information available from the firms affected is that staff have been successfully redeployed to other work and that there have been no redundancies.