§ 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. CarmichaelDuring the three years ending on 31st December 1973 contracts over £100,000 for trunk roads, including motorways, were awarded as follows:
£ million 1. W. & C. French (Construction) Ltd. 70.0 2. Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd./Leonard Fairclough Ltd. in consortium (a). 55.3 3. Dowsett Engineering Construction Ltd. 30.6 4. Bovis Civil Engineering Ltd. 22.4 5. Cementation Construction Ltd. 20.5 6. (Costain Civil Engineering Ltd. (b) 19.6 A. Monk & Co. Ltd. 19.6 8. Amey Roadstone Construction Ltd./Leonard Fairclough Ltd. in consortium (c) 14.0 9. Gleeson Civil Engineering Ltd. 12.4 10. John Laing Construction Ltd. 11.4 11. Amey Roadstone Construction Ltd./Marples Ridgway Ltd. in consortium (d) 9.5 12. George Wimpey & Co. Ltd. 9.3 Notes:
(a) These firms have received other contracts individually: Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd. 22.3 Leonard Fairclough Ltd. 1.7 (b) This firm has received one other contract in consortium with Redpath Dorman Long Ltd. valued at 6.7 (c) Amey Roadstone Construction Ltd. has received 10 other contracts valued at 5.1 (d) Marples Ridgway Ltd. has received 2 other contracts valued at 8.8