§ Dame Irene Wardasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will announce the proposals for assisting shipping and shipbuilding, following on the joint representations made to his Department which have been accepted though not clarified.
§ Mr. John DaviesI refer my hon. Friend to the assurance given to her in the House on 28th July by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Industrial Development that an answer would be given before the Summer Recess to the proposals I have received from the Chamber of Shipping and the 227W Shipbuilders and Repairers National Association.—[Vol. 841, c. 2286–7.]