HC Deb 18 March 1968 vol 761 cc48-9W
Mr. William Hamilton

asked the President of the Board of Trade how much has been invested in each airport in Scotland and England and Wales, respectively in each of the last five years.

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu

Annual investment figures for each of the last five years at Board of Trade, British Airports Authority and local authority civil airports in Scotland and England and Wales respectively are appended. I have no information regarding investment at private airports.

Following is the information:

INVESTMENT IN CIVIL AIRPORTS—SCOTLAND
Aerodromes 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67
£ £ £ £ £
Board of Trade
Glasgow (Renfrew) … … 26,655 27,325 5,763 32,788 1,280
Aberdeen … … … 52,588 6,849 8,114 12,065 102,722
Edinburgh … … … 33,560 49,157 108,027 77,529 26,834
Benbecula … … … 10,951 13,489 6,676 8,973 4,715
Inverness … … … 14,882 11,355 4,916 5,856 678
Islay … … … 2,253 3,685 4,843 17,140 415,899
Kirkwall … … … 7,576 1,967 3,261 4,099 455,985
Machrihanish … … … 4,037 5,892 Transferred to Ministry of Defence
Stornoway … … … 7,318 10,975 23,832 15,959 24,528
Sumburgh … … … 10,999 5,379 7,629 2,672 43,122
Tiree … … … 4,347 1,572 4,241 10,820 6,194
Wick … … … 18,630 5,416 8,039 2,614 598
British Airports Authority
Prestwick … … … 669,954 1,698,882 638,929 901,722 318,813
Local Authority
Glasgow (Abbots inch) … … 16,000 122,000 1,227,000 2,195,000 1,070,355
Dundee … … … Nil Nil Nil 3,330 4,435

Notes on Schedules of Investment at Civil Airports

1. Investment at local authority airports includes Government grant-aided investment.

2. The figures include investment in aerodrome navigation services, except those for Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester for 1962–63 and 1963–64 for which this information is not readily available.

3. The figures have either been extracted from the Trading Accounts and Balance Sheets of the Ministry of Aviation and the Board of Trade, and from the Annual Report of the British Airports Authority 1966–67 or obtained from local authorities.

4. Where figures are bracketted together, separate figures are not readily available.