§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the total amounts paid by his Department in respect of headquarter contracts to United Kingdom-based contracts in each of the three years to 31 March 1991.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe Ministry of Defence paid the following total amounts to United Kingdom-based contractors for the financial years 1988–89 to 1990–91: 401W
£ million 1988–89 7,776.38 1989–90 8,232.57 1990–91 9,132.48 Centrally held records do not differentiate between payments made under headquarters contracts and other types of payments. The precise information requested could be assembled only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the precise amounts paid to each of the 10 contractors which received the largest shares of headquarter contracts awarded by his Department in each of the three years to 31 March 1991.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe 10 contractors that received the largest payments from my Department in each of the years specified were:
£ million 1988–89 British Aerospace plc 1,085.94 The General Electric Co. plc 902.04 Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Consortium plc 409.31 Rolls-Royce plc 329.20 The Plessey Co. plc 308.74 Devonport Management Ltd. 236.79 Ferranti plc 209.71 Thorn EMI plc 157.95 FKI Babcock plc 151.08 GKN plc 131.88 1989–90 BAe plc 926.39 GEC plc 785.43 VSEL Consortium plc 561.88 Rolls-Royce plc 319.73 Devonport Management plc 277.22 Plessey plc 248.44 Ferranti International plc 220.96 FKI Babcock plc 171.54 Thorn EMI plc 163.11 Westland Group plc 138.30 1990–91 BAe plc 996.29 GEC plc 799.92 VSEL Consortium plc 591.35 Rolls-Royce plc 399.86 The Weir Group plc 293.36 GEC Siemens plc 246.13 Ferranti International plc 198.05 Babcock International Group plc 183.90 Thorn EMI plc 165.67 Vickers plc 154.48 The proportion of these sums represented by headquarters contracts could only be identified at disproportionate cost.