HC Deb 17 March 1975 vol 888 cc276-9W
Mr. Trotter

asked the Secretary of State for Employment which ports are in the Dock Labour Scheme; and when they joined.

Mr. Harold Walker:

The following table shows the ports to which the scheme relates; all came within the scheme from its inception in 1947:—

A. Tyne and Wear Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Blyth
  2. (2) Dunston
  3. (3) Gateshead
  4. (4) Newcastle
  5. (5) North Shields
  6. (6) Seaham Harbour
  7. (7) South Shields
  8. (8) Sunderland

B. The following ports:

  1. (1) Middlesbrough
  2. (2) The Hartlepools

C. The following ports:

  1. (1) Hull
  2. (2) Goole

D. The following ports:

  1. (1) Grimsby
  2. (2) Immingham

E. Wash Ports:

  1. The following ports:
  2. (1) Boston
  3. (2) King's Lynn
  4. (3)Wisbech

F. East Anglian Ports:

  1. The following ports:
  2. (1) Great Yarmouth
  3. (2) Ipswich
  4. (3) Lowestoft

G. The Port of London

H. The Medway and Swale Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) The area of the Conservators of the River Medway
  2. (2) The area of the Commissioners of the Faversham Navigation
  3. (3) The area of the Conservators of Milton Creek
  4. (4) The harbour area of the Queenborough Corporation
  5. (5) Whitstable

I. South Coast Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Poole and Hamworthy
  2. (2) Southampton
  3. (3) Weymouth

J. The Port of Plymouth

The following ports:

  1. (1) Charlestown
  2. (2) Falmouth
  3. (3) Fowey
    4. 278
  4. (4) Hayle
  5. (5) Newlyn
  6. (6) Par
  7. (7) Penryn
  8. (8) Penzance
  9. (9) Porthleven
  10. (10) Portreath
  11. (11) Truro

L. Bristol and Severn Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Bristol
  2. (2) Gloucester
  3. (3) Sharpness

M. South Wales Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Barry
  2. (2) Cardiff and Penarth
  3. (3) Newport
  4. (4) Port Talbot
  5. (5) Swansea

N. The following ports:

  1. (1) Birkenhead
  2. (2) Bromborough
  3. (3) Garston
  4. (4) Liverpool
  5. (5) Widnes

O. The following ports:

  1. (1) Ellesmere Port
  2. (2) Manchester
  3. (3) Partington
  4. (4) Runcorn
  5. (5) Weston Point

P. The Port of Preston

Q. The Port of Fleetwood

R. The following ports:

  1. (1) Barrow-in-Furness
  2. (2) Silloth
  3. (3) Whitehaven
  4. (4) Workington

S. Ayrshire Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Ardrossan
  2. (2) Ayr
  3. (3) Irvine
  4. (4) Troon

T. The Clyde Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Glasgow
  2. (2) Greenock

U. The Port of Aberdeen

V. East of Scotland Ports:

The following ports:

  1. (1) Burntisland
  2. (2) Dundee
  3. (3) Grangemouth
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  4. (4) Granton
  5. (5) Kirkcaldy
  6. (6) Leith
  7. (7) Methil
  8. (8) Tayport