§ Mr. Myles asked the Secretary of State for Scotland which multinational companies have established new manufacturing units in Scotland over the past five years; and whether his Department has any information on the extent to which these new factories have been established with the purpose of exporting a large proportion of their products to the other European Community member States.
§ Mr. Alexander Fletcher:The following list comprises overseas-owned companies known to my Department as having established or taken over manufacturing units in Scotland in the last five years: it includes facilities for the manufacture of new products but not straightforward expansion of existing production capacity.
179WDetailed information on the marketing intentions of the parent company at the time of establishment is not available to my Department, but it is evident from the export performance and statements by management of many of these companies that they look to a European market.
- Gray Tool Company (Europe) Limited
- Motorola Limited
- UIE Shipbuilding (Scotland) Limited
- General Instrument Microelectronic Limited
- Tokheim Limited
- Digital Equipment Scotland Limited
- Fischer Ultrasound Limited
- Coors Porcelain Company Encase Limited
- A & S Henry (Dundee) Limited
- Beckman Instruments Limited
- Fabri-Tek Computer Comps
- Rockwell International
- Flow Laboratories Limited
- Levi Strauss (UK) Limited
- Caberboard Limited
- Mitsubishi Electric (UK) Limited
- Polaroid (UK) Limited
- Nimslo Limited
- Scintag-Berthold Limited
- Burroughs Machines Limited
- Terasaki Europe Limited
- MEL
- Butcher Boy (UK) Limited
- Allis Chalmers GB Limited
- MCP Pharmaceuticals Limited
- Honeywell Control Systems
- GTC Gas Turbine Limited
- Playtex Limited
- Metecno (UK) Limited
- National Semi-Conductor Limited
- Stirling Mineral Water Company Limited
- Henry Valve (UK) Limited
- Dreher Automatic Systems Limited
- Hewlett-Packard Limited
- Keystone Valves
- JLG Industries
Housing subsidies and other assistance £million at 1980 survey prices† 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 *1975–76 Government subsidies (except rent rebate and rent
allowance subsidies)
118 119 159 225 229 231 Rate fund contribution 123 108 74 59 78 60 Mortgage interest tax relief and option mortgage
subsidy
36 36 39 48 60 66 Rent rebates and allowances — — 26 49 32 36
£million at 1980 survey prices† *1976*–77 *1977–78 *1978–79 *1979–80 *1980–81 Government subsidies (except rent rebate and rent
allowance subsidies)
256 227 240 273 252 Rate fund contribution 49 55 57 48 48 Mortgage interest tax relief and option mortgage
subsidy
77 62 67 77 94 Rent rebates and allowances 26 43 38 43 51 * The figures for 1975-76 onwards are provisional pending publication of local financial return for these years.†For explanation of 1980 survey prices, see Cmnd. 8175, part 5, paragraph 31.