Planning Agreements (Hansard, 23 February 1979)

§ Mr. Litterick

asked the Secretary of State for Industry (1) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: Shell, ICI, Esso, GKN Sankey, Tube Investments, Vickers Ltd. Engineering, Babcock and Willcox, 321W Monsanto Chemicals, Unilever Ltd. and Cadbury Schweppes; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(2) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: British Railways, Cable and Wireless, British Airways, British Steel Corporation, British Aircraft Corporation, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, Scott Lithgow Ltd., Harland and Wolff, and Alfred Herbert Ltd.; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(3) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: the Bank of England, Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank, Midland Bank, National Westminster Bank, Prudential Assurance, the Royal Insurance Company and the Nationwide Insurance Company; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(4) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: Marks and Spencer Ltd., Sainsbury Ltd., May and Baker, Stanley Industries, British Electric Traction, Costains Ltd., Sir A. MacAlpine Ltd., Wimpeys Ltd., Rank Spillers Ltd., Plessey Group Ltd. and Rolls-Royce Ltd.; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(5) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: Smith Industries Ltd., IBM Ltd., Cincinnati Machine Tool Company, Procter and Gamble, Reed International, International Latex Corporation, Standard Cables, AEG Telefunken (UK) Ltd., and Albright (Engineers Ltd.); and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(6) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of 322W communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement. Dunlop Ltd., Pirelli Ltd., BICC Ltd., Chloride Alcad Ltd., Chloride Automotive Batteries Ltd., Chloride Industrial Batteries Ltd., Crompton Parkinson Ltd., Fisons Ltd., EMI Ltd., Dowty Engineering Ltd., Massey Ferguson, Ferranti Ltd., Fine Tubes Ltd., and Frigidaire Europe—General Motors; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(7) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: GEC Computers Ltd., GEC Gas Turbines Ltd., GEC Industrial Controls Ltd., GEC (Lamps and Lighting) Ltd., GEC Machines Ltd., GEC Power Engineering Ltd., GEC (Radio and Television) Ltd., GEC Switchgear Ltd., GEC Telecommunications, GEC Traction, GEC Turbine Generators and GEC-Elliott Process Automation; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(8) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: British Brown-Boveri Ltd., Lucas Aerospace Ltd., Lucas Batteries Ltd., Lucas Control Systems Ltd., Lucas Electrical Ltd., Lucas Metal Working, Marconi Communications Ltd., Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd., Marconi-Elliot Avionic Systems, Mullard Ltd., and the Midlands Electricity Board; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(9) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of commmunication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: Batchelors Foods Ltd., Baur (Great Britain) Ltd., The Carborundum Company Ltd. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Champion Spark Plug Company, Charles Churchill Ltd., Clarke Engineering (UK) Ltd., and the Crabtree Engineering Group Ltd.; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

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(10) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: Kodak Ltd., Union Carbide (UK) Ltd., the Wellcome Foundation Ltd. and Wiggins Teape Ltd.; and what were the results of the negotiations in each case;

(11) if he will list the dates on which meetings, negotiations or other forms of communication took place between Ministers or officials of his Department and the following companies with a view to concluding a planning agreement: the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, British Leyland and Vauxhall Motors Ltd., and what were the results of the negotiations in each case.