§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked 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. ButcherThe 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.
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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.