HC Deb 25 July 1985 vol 83 cc733-4W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of steel plants which have been closed or substantially closed since May 1979 and the plants which have been scheduled for closure in substantial part, together with the number of jobs lost in each case.

Mr. Butcher

The following list covers closures involving more than 100 employees, and partial closures estimated to have resulted in the loss of more than 500 job opportunities, which have taken place since May 1979 or are scheduled to take place shortly.

Numbers
BSC Plants
Barrow 170
Beckermet ore mine 200
Bilston 2,350
Clydebridge 575
Consett 4,300
Cookley 600
Corby 6,000
Craigneuk 380
Glengarnock 200
Hallside 600
Hartlepool 1,000
Jarrow 280

Numbers
Lanarkshire 550
Landore 330
Llanwern/Port Talbot 6,700
Monkshall 240
Prothero 600
Rotherham (Aldwarke/Templeborough) 4,000
Scunthorpe:
Normanby Park 4,100
Redbourne 1,700
Shotton 7,000
Stocksbridge 500
Teesside:
Cargo Fleet 400
Cleveland/Clay Lane 2,700
Tinsley Park 1,100
Warrington 680
Workington 1,500
Private Sector Plants:
John Bagnall & Sons 330
Brockhouse District Steel 300
Brymbo Steelworks 1,250
Ductile Planetary Mill 270
Duport Steel Works 1,300
Firth Brown/Forgemasters 1,750
GKN South Wales 600
Hadfields 2,650
London Works Steel 480
Patent Shaft Steelworks 1,530
Round Oak Steelworks 1,800
Total numbers not readily available:
Aurora
Effingham Steelworks
Exors of James Mills
Richard Johnson & Nephew
Lilleshall Steel
Lloyds (Dudley)
Loughlan
Manchester Steel
Martin Black
Neepsend
James Neill
Park Webb Forge
Swift Levick

The total number of job opportunities lost in the steel industry in the same period, by demanning as well as capacity reductions, was approximately 130,000.