§ Sir H. Legge-Bourkeasked the President of the Board of Trade what plans he now has to build further advance factories in development districts.
§ Mr. MaudlingIn March, 1959, the Government announced that as an experiment they proposed to build three advance factories in Holyhead, Speke and Coatbridge. For the first two, occupiers have been found.
In the light of these facts, we have now decided to erect factories of about 25,000 sq. ft. at Pembroke Dock and of about 40,000 sq. ft. on the border of Jarrow and South Shields. In Scotland, we propose to take over seven of the fourteen buildings in the Admiralty depot at Carfin and to make two of the buildings, of about 26,500 sq. ft. each, ready for immediate industrial use; in addition, an advance factory of some 25,000 sq. ft. will be built elsewhere in Scotland, the exact location to be announced later.