HC Deb 29 March 1985 vol 76 c386W
Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Defence why Mr. Peter Levene, while chairman of United Scientific Holdings and a senior office-bearer of the Defence Manufacturers Association, was asked to approach defence manufacturers with a view to ascertaining their interest in contracts for managing the royal dockyards.

Mr. Butler

In order to establish the likely extent of such interest.