§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he intends to proceed with the acquisition and development as an industrial estate on the site known as Number One, Consett.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe site has been acquired and development work by the English Industrial Estates Corporation is in progress.
§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list all firms situated in the Consett constituency and on the Cattleside industrial estate which have been assisted under sections 7 and 8 of the Industry Act 1972 since 1974.
§ Mr. David MitchellLists of individual firms receiving selective assistance are published quarterly inTrade and Industry in accordance with arrangements announced in the House on 31 July 1974. The lists exclude cases where assistance is below the prescribed minima; where no payment has so far been made; or where the offer was made before 31 July 1974.
Details of offers under section 7 published under these arrangements up to 31 January 1979 to firms in respect of projects in the Consett constituency are as follows:
Name of firm Value of offer £ Finlay Packaging Ltd. 13,800 Ransome Hoffman Ltd. 7,400 Anthony Carrimore Ltd. 150,000 Cumberland Fibres Ltd. 37,200 John H. Taylor Ltd. 26,700 Cumberland Fibres Ltd. 840,000 Ransome Hoffman Pollard 1,200,000 R. B. Bolton (Hydraulics) Ltd. 147,000 Northern Assemblies (Coach builders) Ltd. 26,957 Nightbridge Ltd. 61,888 Eden Engineering Ltd. 15,246 Alan Hood 17,625 No offers were made under section 8.
I regret that information relating to projects on the Cattleside industrial estate is not readily available.