§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Wales what are the employment prospects for the Inmos factory, Newport; what is the reason for not building stage II of the Inmos factory; how many current Inmos workers in Newport are on short-time; how many are drawing lower wages; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe questions raised are essentially matters for the company which has issued a press release explaining that the 200 redundancies at Newport and the indefinite postponement of the new assembly operation planned to begin this year are part of a programme to cut costs in the currently depressed semi-conductor market. The company has also said that to exploit its design skills and advanced manufacturing facilities and to allow it to compete in world markets it will be giving priority to the
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Number of beds closed as result of complete hospital closure Number of beds closed in hospitals not completely closed Number of beds provided as a result of new hospital openings Number of beds provided as a result of additions to existing hospitals Number of in-patient cases CLWYD: Acute hospitals: 1974 — 13 — — 29,362 1975 — 11 — 14 27,627 1976 — — — 4 29,916 1977 — 3 — 2 30,276 1978 — — — 33 31,377 1979 — 13 — — 32,126 1980 — 81 369 — 39,212 1981 — 30 — 52 45,017 1982 — 19 — 48 44,853 1983 — 41 — 18 47,709 1984 — 55 — 23 49,971 Long stay hospitals: 1974 — 95 — 25 2,396 1975 — 23 — — 2,197 1976 — 10 — 3 2,153 1977 — 5 — 4 2,135 1978 — — — — 2,085 1979 — — — — 2,040 1980 — 149 — — 1,884 1981 — — — 12 1,411 1982 — — — — 1,058 1983 — 6 — — 1,132 1984 — 1 — — 1,137 Psychiatric hospitals: 1974 — — — 13 2,302 1975 — 15 — 19 2,569 1976 — 2 — — 2,679 1977 — 58 — — 2,684 1978 — 8 — — 2,436 1979 — 21 — — 2,445 1980 — — — — 2,650 1981 — — — 2 2,642 1982 — 3 — — 2,868 1983 — 30 — — 2,860 1984 — 10 — — 2,820 Other hospitals: 1974 — 1 — 21 10,358 introduction of new high value products, such as the transputer, and gradually phasing out the direct manufacture of its dynamic RAM products.