§ Mr. Robert Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Industry what is the present number of personnel employed by the Industrial Estates Corporation.
Mr. Alan WilliamsOn 1st April last the English Industrial Estates Corporation employed 258.
The Scottish and Welsh Industrial Estates Corporations were dissolved and their functions and staffs subsumed within the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies from 1st December 1975 and 1st January 1976 respectively.
§ Mr. Robert Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will give an explanation of the £214,000 of bad and doubtful debts incurred by the Industrial Estates Corporation in the accounts for the year ended 31st March 1975.
Mr. Alan WilliamsThese debts are rents and other outstanding payments not recovered from tenants who have gone into liquidation.