§ Mr. McFallTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what statistics are held by his Department on(a) the failure of wire rope shiplifts and (b) accidents involving failure of shiplift systems around the world.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonA variety of data has been collected on an in confidence basis from a number of sources on both the reported failures of wire rope shiplifts and accidents involving the failure of shiplift systems.