§ Mr. Alec Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give details of the locations and number of people employed in each of the advanced factories in development areas and elsewhere on 1st January 1973.
§ Mr. Anthony Grant467 advance factories had been completed in the assisted areas by 1st January 1973. Of these, 186 were in England, 176 in Scotland and 105 in Wales. Details of employment at individual factories are not precisely known, and are in any case confidential to the firms concerned.
§ Mr. Alec Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give details of the empty advance factories in development areas and elsewhere on 1st January 1973.
§ Mr. Anthony Grant39 were unallocated on 1st January 1973. Of these, 17 were in Scotland, six in Wales, and 257W the rest in England, mostly in the Northern Region. I am writing to the hon. Member giving him the full list of locations.