§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he intends to provide special assistance to textile companies experiencing cash flow difficulties caused by delays resulting from the present industrial action being taken by certain civil servants.
§ Mr. Les HuckfieldI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Hoyleasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the firms in the North-West which have received assistance under section 8 of the Industry Act, by constituency, and the amount each firm received.
§ Mr. Les Huckfield, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 13 March 1979; Vol. 964, c. 159], gave the following information:
Lists of companies receiving assistance under the Industry Act 1972 are published quarterly in"Trade and Industry"following the first payment to the company. Listed below are the published details of the companies, and the amount of assistance offered in each case, in the North-West region. It is not possible to provide this information by constituency area; nor do we publish details of the amount of payments received by, as distinct from the amount of assistance offered to, individual firms.
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ASSISTANCE GIVEN TO SCHEME/COMPANY Clothing Industry Scheme £ Bairdwear Ltd. 7,000 Bairdwear Ltd. 37,685 M. Baker (Clothing) Ltd. 82,030 Blue Jay Fashions Ltd. 5,085 H. Braddocks Ltd. 7,816 Bentwood Brothers Ltd. 22,772 Casual Sportswear Ltd. 10,104 Cookson and Clegg Ltd. 13,716 Courtaulds Knitwear Ltd. 12,941 Danimac Ltd. 12,241 Dhobi Weatherlux Ltd. 19,096 Eagle Manufacturing Ltd. 6,250 Eclipse Clothing Ltd. 5,850 Eclipse Clothing Ltd. 12,093 F. Ellis and Co. Ltd. 84,921 F. Ellis and Co. Ltd. 6,162 F. Ellis and Co. Ltd. 334,620 F. Ellis and Co. Ltd. 34,149 B. Forster and Co. Ltd. 23,328 Henri Lloyd Ltd. 5,241 Henry Bannerman (Holdings) Ltd. 25,875 H. R. Howard Ltd. 8,644 I. and M. Kindler Ltd. 21,123 276W
£ I. and M. Kindler Ltd. 9,750 I. and M. Kindler Ltd. 14,346 I. and M. Kindler Ltd. 6,650 Jacob Goodman Ltd. 9,573 Jacob E. Goodman and Sons Ltd. 17,375 John Harding (Baronia) Ltd. 16,557 John Peck and Co. Ltd. 10,712 Kattenburgs Ltd. 5,000 D. H. Leonard Ltd. 6,250 Leslie Powell and Co. Ltd. 6,920 Lux Lux Ltd. 6,790 RL Manufacturing Ltd. 33,695 Maydella Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 8,185 Max Bernstein Ltd. 26,050 D. R. Melbourne Ltd. 8,919 Moss and Gregan Ltd. 8,400 Norman Nicholls Ltd. 10,037 Norseman Rainwear 19,142 Northgate Group 79,758 Perry Blouse Mnfr. Co. Ltd. 20,016 Peter Blond Ltd. 17,825 Peter Blond Ltd. 13,299 S. and B. Phillips Ltd. 5,074 Quelrayn Ltd. 26,542 Revelation Shirts 7,750 Rosenda Blackburn Ltd. 10,836 Rosenda (Blackburn) Ltd. 8,863 O. L. Schultz Ltd. 45,327 Shudehill Manufacturing Co. 11,961 Taylor and Hartley Ltd. 6,780 V. G. Garments Ltd. 15,117 Wetherall (Bond Street) Ltd. 6,225 Wetherall (Bond Street) Ltd. 7,111 Ferrous Foundry Industry Scheme W. H. Booth and Co. Ltd. 24,470 British Rail Engineering 108,950 H. Broadbent and Son Ltd. 211,250 David Caird Ltd. 142,260 Dennis Castings Ltd. 29,750 L. Gardner and Sons Ltd. 158,750 Hattersley Newman Hender Ltd. 62,500 Henry Wall work and Co. Ltd. 40,210 Henry Wallwork and Co. Ltd. 18,500 Hick Hargreaves and Co. Ltd. 20,535 Holcroft Castings and Forgings Ltd. 88,250 Ircast Foundries Ltd. 46,205 James Raistick and Sons Ltd. 36,450 John Hawthorn and Co. Ltd. 17,880 Midland Rollmakers Ltd. 387,000 Moston Malleable Castings Co. Ltd. 14,250 Richard Baxendale and Sons Ltd. 12,245 Ryder Brothers Ltd. 95,800 Simon Warman Ltd. 161,500 Widnes Foundry and Eng. Co. Ltd. 31,250 William Coupe (High Walton) Ltd. 109,700 Machine Tool Industry Scheme W. R. Anderton and Co. Ltd. 65,560 Ashton Jig and Tool Co. Ltd. 10,836 BOC Ltd. 11,830 Cross International A—UK Branch 333,590 Cross International A—UK Branch 39,000 Dronsfield Brothers Ltd. 152,880 Hargreaves and Gott Ltd. 8,011 Hodgson and Sanders Ltd. 43,602 Hyde Industrial Holdings Ltd. 36,960 Joshua Heaps and Co. Ltd. 13,213 Staveley Machine Tools Co. Ltd. 190,000
Staveley Machine Tools Ltd. 230,230 Toolmak Ltd. 10,954 Taylor Engineering and Plastics Ltd. 10,939 Non-Ferrous Foundry Industry Scheme A. G. Parkes Ltd. 8,700 Presbar Diecastings Ltd. 172,750 Manchester Investment Castings Ltd. 6,290 Strebor Diecasting Co. Ltd. 236,766 West and Musgrave Ltd. 16,680 Paper and Board Industry Scheme Bowater-Scott Corporation Ltd. 507,280 Burnley Paper Works Co. Ltd 102,224 Ribble Paper Mills Ltd. 170,750 Poultry Meat Processing Industry Scheme Harrisons (Poultry) Ltd. 13,096 Printing Machinery Industry Scheme Bennett-Dean Design Ltd. 18,000 Cobden Chadwick Ltd. 84,000 Linotype and Machinery Ltd. 77,498 Simon-VK Ltd. 1,835,322 Redmeat Slaughterhouse Industry Scheme Ford N. Beeson (Bradeley Abattoir) Ltd. 18,495 James Strange & Co. Ltd. 27,000 Textile Machinery Industry Scheme Platt Saco Lowell Ltd. 1,135,000 Smith Holdings Ltd. 104,082 Wool Textile Industry Scheme—Stage 2 J. Bradbury and Co. (Saddles-worth) Ltd. 17,292 Accelerated Projects Scheme Associated Biscuits Ltd. 54,000 FEB (Great Britain) Ltd. 61,100 L. Gardner & Sons Ltd. 505,260 GEC Switchgear Co. Ltd. 134,580 Rolls-Royce Motors 265,000 Shell Chemicals UK Ltd. 4,800,000 Trind Ltd. 47,000 Selective Investment Scheme Adamson Containers Ltd. 597,000 Burrell and Co. Ltd. 70,150 Cadbury Ltd. 500,000 Carrington Viyella Ltd. 733,000 Edgar Allen Steels Ltd. 250,000 Pakcel Conveyors Ltd. 81,000 E. R. Squibb and Sons Ltd. 112,500 Thomas Storey (Engineers) Ltd. 65,000