124. Miss Wardasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in the interests of short-term and long-term export policy, he will ensure that shipbuilders have an adequate supply of steel in the final quarter of this year.
§ Mr. DigbyI regret that owing to the steel shortage it is not possible to meet the shipbuilding industry's requirements in full. The steel allocation for shipbuilding in the last quarter of this year is 8 per cent. more than in the third quarter and I hope that, when the allocations for the first quarter of 1953 are made, a further increase will be possible.