§ Mr. Redmondasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give particulars of the 12 firms which have received, in aggregate, the greatest value of road building contracts placed by his Department in the past three years, and the total value of the contracts received by each.
§ Mr. Michael HeseltineDuring the three years ended 31st December, 1971, contracts over £100,000 for trunk roads and motorways were awarded as follows:
Name of Main Contractor Aggregate Value of Contracts (Tender sums £ million 1. W. & C. French (Construction) Ltd. 40.4 2. Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd. and Leonard Fairclough Ltd. (in consortium)(a) 35.9 3. Costain Civil Engineering Ltd.(b) 28.7 4. George Wimpey & Co. Ltd. and Kier Ltd. (in consortium)(c) 21.2 5. A. E. Farr Ltd. 20.7 6. John Laing Construction Ltd. 20.2 7. Dowsett Engineering Construction 14.7 8. Marples Ridgway Ltd. 12.7 9. Cementation Construction Ltd. 11.3 10. A. Monk &Co. Ltd. 10.3 11. Holland Hannen & Cubitts (Civil Engineering) Ltd. 10.1 12. Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. 9.5 (a) These firms have received other contracts: Individually— Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd. 18.2 Leonard Fairclough Ltd. 2.6 In consortium— Leonard Fairclough Ltd. in consortium with Amey Asphalt Ltd 11.8 Leonard Fairclough Ltd. in consortium with Cementation Construction Ltd. 10.0 (b) This firm has received one other contract in consortium with Sydney Green & Sons (Con tractors) Ltd. valued at £5.5 million. (c) George Wimpey & Co. Ltd. has received one other contract valued at £0.4 million. Kier Ltd. has received one other contract valued at £0.1 million.