§ Mr. Stanleyasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will detail the actual and forecast expenditure reductions which have resulted in the fall of £40 million in real terms of the total development costs of Concorde.
§ Mr. Meacher:The reduction of approximately £40 million in real terms of estimate of the total development costs of Concorde is attributable primarily to the more accurate definition of the outstanding future task. This has been made possible by the satisfactory technical progress of the project in the recent past. Rather more than half of the decrease is attributable to re-estimates of French costs on the airframe development, whilst in the United Kingdom the reduction has been concentrated on the engine activities at Rolls-Royce. Most of the remaining reduction is due to clearer definition of the work outstandig on engine development in the United Kingdom.
TOTAL SALES OF UNITED KINGDOM MANUFACTURERS (Total sales cover sales to the United Kingdom market and exports) Unit 1970(July December) 1971 1972 1 Colour television sets … … … Thousand 280 834 1,469 2 Domestic radio receivers … … … Thousand 329 769 726 3 Motor cars† … … … Thousand 512 1,335 1,702 4 Washing machines … … … Thousand 483 1,049 1,249 5 Refrigerators (domestic) … … … Thousand 429 1,013 1,150 Cookers: 6 Electric (over 5 kW) … … … Thousand 404 823 796 7 Gas … … … £ thousand .. .. .. Vacuum cleaners (domestic) … … … Thousand 1,017 2.162 2,544
Unit 1973 1974 1975(January-February) 1 Colour television sets … … … Thousand 2,117 1,427* .. 2 Domestic radio receivers … … … Thousand 677 381* .. 3 Motor cars† … … … Thousand 1,688 1,274 249 4 Washing machines … … … Thousand 1,375 1,067 .. 5 Refrigerators (domestic) … … … Thousand 1,285 891* .. Cookers: 6 Electric (over 5 kW) … … … Thousand 872 675 .. 7 Gas … … … £ thousand 48,752 57,146 .. 8 Vacuum cleaners (domestic) … … … Thousand 2,609 2,373 .. ..Not available. * January-September only. †New registrations of privately-licensed cars and vans. These cover both United Kingdom manufactured and imported vehicles sold on the home market. Sources: 1, 2, 7 Business Monitor series; 3 Department of the Environment; 4. 5, 6, 8 Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Electric Appliances.