§ Mr. Nobleasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will update the information given to the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mrs. Taylor) Official Report, 22nd October 1975, columns 213-16, on the level of State aid to industry showing loans and grants separately for, respectively, investment grants, Local Employment Acts and initial tax allowances, regional employment premium, selective employment premium, export rebates, export credit guarantees, military aircraft and missiles, research and development, civil aircraft and other research and development, IRC and shipbuilding reconstruction and mergers, industrial training, and agriculture, fisheries and forestry.
§ Mr. CryerThe following is the information relating to those items of expenditure previously listed for which my Department is responsible:
§ Mr. KaufmanI regret that details of manpower and output of Scottish steel works in 1964 are not available. Contemporary information on the products made at the works was set out in the publication "Iron and Steel Works of the World", Fourth edition, published by Metal Bulletin Books Limited in 1965, a copy of which is available in the Library 559W of the House of Commons. The latest available information on manpower and products made at the British Steel Corporation's Scottish Steel Works is as follows:
Works Manpower Products Dalzell 1,520 Plates Lanarkshire 447 Section and Billets Clydebridge 1,350 Plates Glengarnock 1,047 Rails, sections, flats and billets Ravenscraig 6,030 Strip Clydesdale 3,682 Tubes Hallside 561 Billets and some ingots for plates Craigneuk 1,300 Steel foundry, bars and some ingots for plates. (The data includes aggregation of figures for some smaller works.)
Tonnage output by works is commercially confidential.
Cost EEC Refunds Net Cost £ £ £ 1976— First quarter … … … … 28,500 14,000 14,500 Second quarter … … … 35,000 17,000 18,000 Third quarter … … … 27,500 13,000 14,500 Fourth quarter … … … 39,000 20,000 19,000 1977— First quarter … … … … 36,000 17,000 19,000 Second quarter … … … 39,250 18,000 21,250 Third quarter … … … 23,000 7,000 16,000