HC Deb 16 February 1989 vol 147 cc330-1W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence: if he will list the agencies, companies and institutions in. Britain which have benefited from the strategic defence initiative research programmes under arrangements directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence, directly contracted to the United States of America, or subcontracted to the United States of America via third parties.

Mr. Sainsbury

The British agencies, companies and institutions which have been awarded contracts by the Ministry of Defence, which were initiated through United States-funded SDI contractual arrangements made on a Government to Government basis, are as follows:

  1. 1. Aerobee Defence Technology
  2. 2. Admiral Computing
  3. 3. Barr and Stroud
  4. 4. British Aerospace
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  5. 5. BMARC
  6. 6. CAP Scientific
  7. 7. Cranfield Institute of Technology
  8. 8. Culham Laboratory
  9. 9. EASAMS
  10. 10. Ferranti
  11. 11. Fluid Gravity
  12. 12. GEC-Marconi
  13. 13. Hunting Engineering
  14. 14. Logica
  15. 15. NEI-IRD
  16. 16. Optical Coatings Ltd
  17. 17. Plessey
  18. 18. PA Defence Services
  19. 19. Philips Components
  20. 20. Racal
  21. 21. Rolls-Royce
  22. 22. Royal Ordnance
  23. 23. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  24. 24. Scicon
  25. 25. Shorts
  26. 26. Software Sciences
  27. 27. Thorn EMI
  28. 28. Theta Analysis

The detail associated with SDI research contracts placed on United Kingdom entities by United States Government agencies or companies is a matter for the parties concerned.

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