§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Industry what was the value of the ship repairing industry in the United Kingdom last year in terms of turnover and in terms of the balance of payments.
§ Mr. Les HuckfieldThe value of ship repair work, including improvements and conversions, carried out in United Kingdom commercial yards in 1975 was £150 million. It is estimated that £30 million of this was on vessels registered abroad. No information is available on repair work done outside the United Kingdom on ships registered in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the ship repairing companies that are to be nationalised under the provisions of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill, together with the number of employees each company has at each of its operational locations.
§ Mr. Les HuckfieldThere is no publicly available Government source of employment figures of this kind.