§ Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those commercial dockyards that have benefited from repair and refit work following the changes in Her Majesty's dockyards.
§ Mr. NeubertFollowing is a list of those firms which have won contracts valued at £10,000 or more for ship refit or ship repair work since the introduction of commercial management at Devonport and Rosyth Royal dockyards in April 1987. All the firms listed have won work from the unallocated programme, which is put out to competition on the open market, with tenders being invited from all suitable shiprepair contractors, including the Royal dockyards.
- A & P Appledore (Aberdeen) Ltd.
- A & P Appledore (Falmouth) Ltd.
- A & P Appledore (Tyne) Ltd.
- Ailsa Perth Shipbuilders Ltd.
- Appledore Shipbuilders
- Babcock Thorn Ltd.
- Berthon Boats Ltd.
- J. Bolson & Son Ltd.
- Bristol Channel Ship Repairers.
- British Dredging Ship Repairers Ltd.
- Cairds Industrial Services plc.
- Camper & Nicholsons
- Clyde Dock Engineering Ltd.
- Clyde Shipbuilding & Repairing (1987) Ltd.
- Cockenzie Ship & Boatyard Ltd.
- E. Cole & Sons (Cowes) Ltd.
- Cosens & Co. Ltd.
- Crissan Marine Ltd.
- Devonport Management Ltd.
- Emsworth Shipyard
- Eyemouth Boat Building Co. Ltd.
- Falmouth Shiprepair Ltd.
- Forth Estuary Engineering Ltd.
- Garvel Dry Dock Co. Ltd.
- Globe Engineering (Hull) Ltd.
- Hall Russell Ltd.
- Halmatic Ltd.
- Harland and Wolff plc.
- Herd & MacKenzie Ltd.
- N. Holman & Sons Ltd.
- Holyhead Boatyard Ltd.
- Humber Shiprepairers Ltd.
- James Adam & Sons (Shiprepairers) Ltd.
- James Miller and Sons
- Mannings Marine Ltd
- Marine & Port Services Ltd.
- Mashford Brothers Ltd.
- McGruers and Co. Ltd.
- Midland Ship Repairers Ltd.
- A. H. Moody and Son Ltd.
- Odessa Shipyard Ltd.
- Ramsgate Marine Ltd.
- Richards Shipbuilders Ltd.
- RTR Marine Ltd.
- Smith Shiprepairers Ltd.
- Seaforth Welding Co. Ltd.
- Sharpness Shipyard Ltd.
- Souter Shipyard Ltd.
- Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd.
420 - Tees Dockyard Ltd.
- Thew Engineering (Southampton) Ltd.
- Timbacraft Ltd.
- Tyne Dock Engineering
- Tyne Shiprepairers Ltd.
- Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd., Portsmouth
- Wear Dockyard Ltd.
- Wright and Beyer Ltd.
§ Mr. Barry FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish and tabulate the refit times for auxiliary vessels refitted in(a) Her Majesty's dockyards and (b) commercial shipyards for the last five years.
§ Mr. NeubertIt is our policy generally to place refit work for RFA and RMAS vessels by competitive tender and most is now undertaken by privately owned commercial shipyards. It is not our practice to publish raw data on timekeeping because refits are rarely comparable in terms of the condition of the vessels and the work undertaken.