HC Deb 04 November 1992 vol 213 c307W
Mr. Byers

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will agree to intervention funding from the European Commission being made available to Swan Hunter Shipbuilders to enable it to diversify into the merchant shipbuilding sector.

Mr. Sainsbury

Our agreement with the Commission prevents us from providing a subsidy to those companies which were privatised as warship builders.

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