HC Deb 26 March 1979 vol 965 cc39-41W
Mrs. Bain

asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list in the Official Report the total sums of money awarded to individual British shipyards under the provisions of the intervention fund since its inception.

Mr. Huckfield

Details of assistance to individual yards are commercially confidential.

At July 1977 At February 1979
Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd … … … … 376 531
Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd … … … … 854 870
Austin and Pickersgill Ltd.:
Southwick … … … … 1,986 2,982
South Dock … … … … 934
Brooke Marine Ltd. … … … … 876 873
Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd … … … … 5,283 4,496
Govan Shipbuilders Ltd.:
Govan … … … … 4,251 4,022
Scotstoun … … … … 1,375 1,384
Hall Russell and Co. Ltd … … … … 736 770
Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd.:
Dundee … … … … 1,015 1,047
Leith … … … … 585 725
Scott Lithgow Group Ltd.:
Bowling … … … … 204 226
Cartsburn and Cartsdyke … … … … 2,888 2,941
Glen/Kingston … … … … 2,767 2,706
Port Glasgow … … … … 362 405
Smith's Dock Co. Ltd.:
Haverton Hill … … … … 1,747 1,343
South Bank … … … … 2,049 2,289
Sunderland Shipbuilders Ltd.:
Deptford … … … … 1,649 1,696
North Sands … … … … 1,604 1,474
Pallion … … … … 1,329 1,308
Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd.:
Clelands … … … … 490 522
Goole … … … … 423 442
Hebburn Dock … … … … 1,427 813
Hebburn Yard … … … … 2,189 1,005
Neptune … … … … 2,690 2,434
South Shields … … … … 95 —
Walker … … … … 1,789 1,718
Wallsend … … … … 3,041 4,190
Vickers Shipbuilding Group Ltd … … … … 9,540 9,089
Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd.:
Paulsgrove … … … … 723 1,066
Woolston … … … … 3,490 3,609
Yarrow (Shipbuilders) Ltd … … … … 5,350 5,557
64,117 62,533
Figures are not available for privately owned yards.

The total amount of assistance offered from the shipbuilding intervention fund in the two years ending February 1979 was £60.2 million, about 57 per cent. of which relates to ships being built in Scottish yards.

Mrs. Bain

asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list in the Official Report the total number of employees in each British shipyard (a) on vesting day and (b) at the most recent available date.

Mr. Kaufman

I understand from British Shipbuilders that the numbers of employees at shipyards owned by it in July 1977-February 1979 are as follows: