HC Deb 31 October 1990 vol 178 cc595-6W
20. Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last discussed the disposal of former British Shipbuilders assets in Sunderland with Tyne and Wear Development corporation.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

I met the chairman and chief executive of the Tyne and Wear development corporation during a visit to the north-east on 23 April 1990, when we discussed the corporation's interest in the disposal of the British Shipbuilders sites in Sunderland.

I have since been in regular correspondence with them on these matters and I saw both gentlemen again yesterday.