§ Mr. Goodhewasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Royal Ordnance factories, showing the items made, the numbers of men employed and the total value of output in each during the most recent year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. BoydenThere are eleven active Royal Ordnance Factories producing a wide range of major and intermediary products. The value of their output in 1967–68 (excluding the value—about £25 million—of equipment and material supplied to the R.O.F.s free of charge and incorporated in their products) was almost £42 million. The major defence activities of each factory, the current employees and the value of their output in 1967–68 are set out below.
is the average weekly cost of domestic heating in a typical Scottish home by gas, coal, electricity and oil, respectively.
Mr. HaftersleyThe results of the Family Expenditure Survey indicate that for the three-year period 1965–67 average weekly household expenditure on fuel and power in Scotland was as follows:
s. d. Gas … 6 11 Electricity … 13 3 Coal and coke … 9 0 Fuel oil and other fuels … 0 9 These figures cover expenditure for all domestic purposes. Expenditure on heating only cannot be separately identified. For both gas and electricity there is some over-estimation of expenditure since no 139W account has been taken of rebates received on slot meter payments.
The figures given are based on information provided by 1,373 households in Scotland which co-operated in the survey and are subject to relatively large sampling errors.