§ Mr. RedwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all shareholdings in public and private companies still held by his Department or by the Scottish Development Board.
§ Mr. Lang[holding answer 12 July 1988]: No shares are held by the Scottish Office. Shareholdings held by the Scottish Development Agency and the Highlands and Islands Development Board are as follows: 466W
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Scottish Development Agency Company Cost £ Aberdeen Petrol 15,000 Afton Dyers 15,000 Albyn 25,000 Aqualife Ltd. 10,000 Armstrong Pack 15,000 Assep Ltd 40 Atlantic Freshwater PLC 125,000 Automatic Truck 50,000 Baby Deer Ltd. 40,000 Babygro Holding 2,565 Bannerman Henry 50,000 Bathgate Invest 50 Bauteil Holdings Ltd 274,156 Berkeley Computer Services Ltd. 35,125 Biggar Meats 50,000 Biomac 20,000 Blair Engineering Ltd. 50,000 Bluemink 150,000 Cairntech 39,000 Caledonian Arenas PLC 125,000 Caledonian Brewing Co. Ltd. 85,000 Caledonian Transgenics Ltd. 106,000 Campbell of Selkirk Ltd. 60,000 Carnscot 25,000 Carron Phoenix 19,024 Carron Plastics 60,000 Carronhall Ltd. 100,000 Carruthers 35,600 Chemflake International Ltd. 167,561 Chessbourne International Ltd. 250,000 Clyde Helicopters Ltd 65,000 Coastal Seafood 25,000 Consort Conservation Ltd. 7,500 Controlled Therapeutics Corporation 556,078 Contrology 50,000 Crosslees Investments Ltd. 144,575 Cruachem 298,570 Damon Biotech 362,054 Deeside Game 15,000 Design GRP Group Ltd. 57,500 Digital Art 12,000 Domain Power 200,000 Drysdale & Gibb 20,000 Dunclare 88,436 Dust Jewellery Ltd. 125,000 Eastern Photocolour Ltd. 50,000 Echo Hotel Ltd. 1,000,000 Edin Instruments Ltd. 225,604 Elena Mae Ltd. 75,000 Eskfood Ltd. 60,000 Exacta Holdings Ltd. 577,506 Farmdata Ltd. 59,528 Fenton Barns 60,000 Fife Silica Sands Ltd. 266,000 Findlay J. 50,000 Fleming Thermodynamics 70,000 Forth Valley Foods Ltd. 150,000 FSA Limited 70,000 Garrion Homes 70,000 Gilcomston 15,000 Glasgow Garden Festival Ltd. 100 Glasgow Heart 70,000 Gleddoch Hotels Ltd. 80,000 Graphic Information Systems Ltd. 243,016 Graphic Print 30,000 HAQ Bros. 25,000 Highland Forest Products Ltd. 900,000 Highland Metals 94,999 Hughes, DM Ltd. 2,500 Industrial Systems & Control 50,000 Instrument and Microelectronic Systems 100,000 Integrated Ceramic Components Ltd. 418,069 Intellemetrics 103,251 International Microelectronics Products 643,342 International Twist Drill Ltd. 305,000 Inveresk Research International Ltd. 325,000
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Company Cost £ In-Europe Electronics 444,000 J. K. Peters & Co. (Trees) Ltd. 250,000 JLG Industries 250,000 Kames Fish 3,043 Kerse Engineering Ltd. 25,000 Kineticon Ltd. 300,000 Kingston Spinners 219,500 Kinshar Ltd. 50,000 Kishorn Windows (Scotland) Ltd. 199,995 Kitchen versions Ltd. 1,700 Kynoch, G&G PLC 250,000 Lasalle Ltd. 245,840 Le Choc Motif 25,000 Liebnitz Lann Limited 40,000 Lothian Coated 5,000 M & M Indust 188,500 Mackinnon International Knitwear Ltd. 40,000 Magnum Signs 25,000 Marenac Ltd. 100,000 McCrindle Pipe 70,000 McCrindle & Sons 70,000 McLaggan Smith Mugs Ltd. 25,000 McMurray 10,000 Memex Information Systems Ltd. 150,000 Milbro Caledon 5,000 Murray Electron 250,000 MMEW Ltd. 40,000 MRM Engineering 20,000 National Hyperbaric Centre 120,711 New Scotland Insurance Group PLC 1,000 North Cape 39,999 North Face 30,000 North Sea Assets plc 427,461 Northern Circuits Ltd 30,000 Novotech Microsystems Ltd 10,000 N. S. C. (Cartons) Ltd 60,000 Office Workstations Ltd 132,668 Omega Diagnost 20,000 Optima Holdings Ltd 100,000 Paton Holdings 120,000 Penman Engineering Ltd 24,489 Peoples 177,992 Polytun Growers 50,000 Precision Chemicals (Manufacturing) Ltd 35,000 Premier Brand Canning Ltd 48,540 Prep Foods Ltd 35,000 Prestwick Holdings plc 123,250 Professional Advisers Cost Engineering Ltd 170,000 Promat Engineering 75,000 Protofeed Ltd 75,000 Pure Malt Products Ltd 150,000 Qualitube Ltd 62,500 Rejaport Ltd 100,000 Rhino Toughened 75,000 R. D. S. Group Ltd 280,625 Sheider 50,000 Scintronix Ltd 250,000 Scot Consultants International Ltd 10,000 Scot Cree Ltd 20,000 Scottish Development Finance Ltd 100 Scotforms 30,000 Scottish Studio 15,000 Scottsdale Leisure Ltd 70,001 Scott/Bellshill 40,000 Scotwest 30,000 Seametrix 40,000 Shanks and McEwan Group plc 225,015 Shield Immunologicals Ltd. 250,000 Shoebrokers 35,000 Sinclair Spitz 50,000 Smith and Telford 250,629 Software Engineering Systems Ltd. 35,000 Sonsub Ltd. 150,000 Spencer, T. Ltd. 50,000 Stanley Mills 19,000 Stenhouse Ltd. 10,000 Stirling Diagnostics 6,666
Company Cost £ Sterling University 33,000 Strathclyde Lifting Services Ltd. 25,000 Strathclyde Proc. 375,000 Studio Ink 30,000 Swiftlogic Ltd. 60,000 Swilken Golf 10,000 Scottish Exhibition Centre Ltd. 7,400,000 S. P. Technology 20,000 Tachanalysis 30,000 Tait Thomas 365,000 Tarbert Fyne Foods Ltd. 180,000 Tarquin Photo 12,189 Tayside Canners Ltd. 100 Tayside Plastics 10,000 Textile Rental 15,000 The Lodge On The Loch Ltd. 50,001 The Mycalex Company Ltd. 35,000 Thistle Foods 25,000 Thor Ceramics 25,000 Timber Terminal 30,000 Trilion plc 105,000 Turnbull 20,000 Valve Instrumentation and Pipe Ltd. 21,000 Weathermac 35,000 West George Street (375) Ltd. 250,000 Whitecross 25,000 Wistley Ltd. 175,000 Woods G. F. and Co. (Edinburgh) Ltd. 30,000 Wright and Jobson 19,812 Wrights Trowmill 40,000 W. H. Perkins Ltd. 175,000 Yarmadillo Ltd. 158,698 Zot Engineering Ltd. 19,000
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Highlands and Islands Development Board Company Cost (£) Acair Ltd. 2,000 All Seasons Craobh Haven Ltd. 1,000 Ardanaiseig Hotel Ltd. 25,000 Atlantic Freshwater plc 15,000 Barra Fish Meal and Oil Co. Ltd. 6,000 Barratlantic Ltd. 13,700 Barbuilean Nurseries Ltd. 14,000 Borrowdale Hotel (South Uist) Ltd. 3,000 S. G. Brolly and Bros. Ltd 10,000 Caithness Glass Holdings Ltd. 60,300 Caithness Glass plc 280,000 Caley Cruisers Ltd. 18,000 Callandish Ltd. 5,000 Castlewynd Studios Ltd. 20,000 Pat Cheney Jewelley Ltd. 10,000 Clansmen Holdings Ltd. 105,411 W. K. Cook Engineering (Evanton) Ltd 120,000 Craignish Salmon Ltd. 24,625 Craignish Salmon (Marketing) Ltd. 6,000 Crannog Ltd. 10,000 The Crinan Hotel (Argyll) Ltd. 30,000 Dalriada Hotels (Tarbert) Ltd. 9,500 Esplanade West (Oban) Ltd. 30,000 Fort William (Cruachem Hotel) Ltd. 15,000 Gaeltec Ltd. 50,536 Gairloch Construction Co. Ltd. 30,000 Gairloch Seafoods Ltd. 8,000 Glenscot Salmon Ltd. 25,000 Hambleside Manufacturing Ltd. 75,000 Harden Associates Ltd. 75,000 Hebridean Seafare Ltd. 60,000 Highland China (Scotland) Ltd. 23,533 Highland Fish Farmers Ltd. 41,800 Highland Heathers Ltd. 56,000 Highland Venison Marketing Ltd. 60,000 T. M. Hunter Ltd. 100,000 Icescot Ltd. 50,000 I.G.L. (Scotland) Ltd. (formerly Mark Templeman and Sons (Scotland) Ltd.) 260,000
Company Cost (£) Inverlever Nurseries Ltd. 15,000 Islay Creamery Co. Ltd. 8,000 Isle of Jura Salmon Ltd. 80,000 Jamieson's Spinning (Shetland) Ltd. 35,000 Kinloch Damph Ltd. 15,000 Kintyre Data Processing Ltd. 8,000 Knipoch House Hotel Co. Ltd. 94,500 Lamont Country Highland Lodges Ltd. 30,000 Liebnitz-Lann Ltd. 5,000 W. H. MacKay & Son Ltd. 150,000 MacLennan Salmon Co. Ltd. 25,000 George V. McLeod (Hotels) Ltd. 35,000 Muileann Beag A' Chrotail Ltd. 26,000 Mull & West Highland Narrow Guage Railway Company Ltd. 22,000 John F. Munro (Contractors) Ltd. 10,000 Murray Seafoods Scotland Ltd. 20,000 Nevisprint Ltd. 50,000 Nontox Ltd. 14,000 Norfrost Ltd. 60,000 Norscot Hotels plc 503,060 Orkney Meat Ltd. 10,000 Osprey Electronics Ltd. 9,000 Pairc Salmon Ltd. 20,000 Priority Hotels Ltd. 10,000 R. K. Carbon Fibres Ltd. 120,000 Rotary Precision Ltd. 20,000 Sea Farm (Kerry) Ltd. 10,000 Seafield Vegetable Growers Ltd. 50,000 Searchglen Ltd. 4,000 Shallseis Ltd. 10,000 Shetland Cold Store Ltd. 25,000 Shian Fisheries Ltd. 10,000 Shetland Fish Ltd. 77,752 Stags Head Hotel (Fort William) Ltd. 20,000 Strathspey Railway Co. Ltd. 7,750 Tamoor Hotel Ltd. 20,000 T. M. M. S. Holdings Ltd. 80,000 Uist Isles Woollen Co. Ltd. 58,000 Underwater Centre Ltd. 120,000 Visitor Centres Ltd. 30,000 Westend Shellfish Ltd. 10,000 Western Isles Salmon Ltd. 3,000 Whiteness Development Co. Ltd. 10,000 Williamson Hotels Ltd. 36,000 L. Williamson (Shetland) Ltd. 66,000 Woodfibres Ltd. 20,000 K. V. Wooster International Ltd. 20,000