§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Industry what studies the tripartite National Economic Co-operation Development Plastics Steering Committee has made of the prospects for the plastics industry in Scotland.
§ Mr. CryerThe Plastics Steering Committee has recently been brought fully into the industrial strategy at sector working party level. The brief of the new Plastics Processing Sector Working Party is primarily to consider national objectives. Nevertheless, the Department of Industry places considerable emphasis on regional policy, and recently commissioned a report on the plastics processing industry in a particular region, namely South Wales. This is being discussed by the sector working party and it is hoped that it will lead to national policy recommendations which will have implications for Scotland also.