§ Mr. Nobleasked the Secretary of State for Industry when he expects to publish the report of the Footwear Industry Study Group.
Company Employment Location British Aircraft Corporation … 33,783 Filton, Fairford, Weybridge, Hurn, Preston, Warton, Samlesbury, Stevenage, Bristol (as at December 1976) Hawker siddeley Aviation … 25,800 Brough and Holme, Bittleswell, Lutterworth, Hamble, Hatfield, Kingston, Dunsford, Middleton, Woodford, Chester (as at December 1976) Hawker Siddeley Dynamics … 6,731 Hatfield, Stevenage, Lostock (as at November 1976) Scottish Aviation … … 1,358 Prestwick, Cumnock (as at December 1976) (All second half 1976) Swan Hunter Group … … 13,194 Wallsend 2,080 North and South Shields 420 Goole Scott Lithgow Ltd. … … 7,710 Greenock (including Port Glasgow and Bowling) Sunderland Shipbuilders Ltd. … 4,515 Sunderland Austin & Pickersgill Ltd. … 2,794 Sunderland Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. … 5,618 Glasgow Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd. 5,400 Birkenhead Yarrow (Shipbuilders) Ltd. … 5,400 Glasgow Vosper Thornycroft … … 7,058 Southampton and Portsmouth Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd. 1,039 Dundee 802 Leith Vickers Ltd. … … … 14,139 Barrow-in-Furness Brooke Marine Ltd. … … 905 Lowestoft Hall Russell & Co. Ltd. … 971 Aberdeen Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. … 816 Appledore