§ 47. Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many railway sidings have been installed with grant aid under the Railway Act 1974 to the most recent practicable date; what is the total value of the grants made; 175W what is the tonnage per annum carried on the new sidings; and if he will list in the Official Report the companies to which the grants have been made and the size of the grants.
§ Mr. William RodgersGrants have been approved for 18 schemes of which eight are wholly or partly operational. The grants total some £2,800,000, and about 3,000,000 tons annually will be involved when all are in service. Information about grants to individual companies is as follows:
Company and Location Grant Containerbase (Liverpool) Ltd., Bootle 1,198,000 Sheerness Steel Co. Ltd., Sheerness 218,500 Robert Smith & Son Ltd., Birkenhead. 220,000 Dower Wood & Co. Ltd., New market 10,000 TI (Chesterfield) Ltd., Chesterfield 17,900 Sydney Banks Ltd., Newmarket: (a) Loading facilities 25,500 (b) Unloading facilities 18,000 E. Pearce & Co. Ltd.: (a) Exeter 6,750 (b) Barnstaple 2,000 Redland Readstone Ltd. 1,050,000 Mountsorrel, Leics. Radlett, Herts. Higham, Suffolk J. McIntyre Ltd., Bradford 10,000 Shell Chemicals UK Ltd., Carrington, Manchester 305,000 †B P Chemicals Ltd., Baglan Bay, Port Talbot 120,000 Pipewell Ploughing Co. Ltd., Harlaxton, Lincs 125,000 *Forth Ports Authority, Leith 328,425 *Stockton Haulage Ltd., Stranraer 92,250 *International Distillers Ltd., Renfrew 6,500 †Tunnel Cement Ltd., Bangor 75,000 * Approved by Secretary of State for Scotland. † Approved by Secretary of State for Wales.