§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in theOfficial Report the precise amounts paid to each of the following contractors by his Department in respect of headquarters contracts in the year ended 31 March 1988 (a) Wimet Wear Parts Ltd., (b) J. S. Chinn Holdings Ltd., (c) Abbey Panels Investments plc., (d) Coventry Climax Engines Ltd., (e) Cornercroft Engineering Ltd., (f) Rotherham and Sons Ltd., (g) Commercial Shearing Inc., (h) Dunlop Ltd., (i) Alvis Ltd., (j) Lucas Aerospace Ltd., and (k) GEC Telecommunications Ltd.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe payment made to each of the following companies in the year ended 31 March in respect of headquarters contracts were as follows:
£ million Coventry Climax Engines Ltd. 1.75 Dunlop Ltd. 13.00 Alvis Ltd. 21.00 Lucas Aerospace Ltd. 35.00 Payments made to GEC Telecommunications Ltd. are included within the total payments made to the General Electric Company and cannot be separately identified.
We have no record of any headquarters contracts having been placed with any of the other companies listed.
§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will outline the general differences which occur between individual memoranda of understanding governing the international collaborative production of military equipment in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. SainsburyWithin the general framework used for memoranda of understanding governing collaborative projects, issues which arise for consideration on a case-by-case basis include arrangements for management, contracting, cost and work-sharing, intellectual property rights and exports to third parties.
§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if it is possible to identify, from the records used to compile the regional disaggregation of expenditure published on page 62 of "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1988", volume 2, the proportion of expenditure made to Rolls-Royce plc. which was allocated to the west midlands standard region in that analysis.
§ Mr. SainsburyIt is not possible to identify payouts to individual companies from the information used to compile the regional disaggregation of expenditure published in the "Statement on the Defence Estimates". Furthermore, it would be a breach of commercial confidence to give the degree of detail requested for an individual company.
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§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in theOfficial Report the precise amounts paid to each of the following contractors in respect of headquarters contracts by his Department in the year ended 31 March (a) National Plastics Ltd., (b) Commercial Hydraulics Keelavite Ltd., (c) Kalmar Climax Ltd., and (d) Jaguar Cars Ltd.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe payments made to each of these companies in the year 31 March 1989 in respect of headquarters contracts were as follows:
£ million National Plastics Ltd. 4.7 Commercial Hydraulics Keelavite Ltd. 2.3 Kalmar Climax Ltd. 2.1 Jaguar Cars Ltd. 1.4
§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the value of headquarter contracts awarded by his Department on behalf of foreign Governments in each of the five years up to 31 March 1988.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding reply 4 April 1989]: The information in the format requested is subject to commercial confidentiality. However, defence export sales by British industry are expected to be worth some £3,500 million in 1988. In earlier years, the figures were:
£ million 1984 2,250 1985 2,900 1986 5,900 1987 3,500 Further information concerning deliveries of defence equipment is given in table 2.7 of volume 2 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1989" (Cm. 675 II).