§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the ship repair contracts awarded to each United Kingdom shipyard in each of the last five years. [39304]
§ Mr. SpellarI am arranging for a list of the ship repair contracts awarded to each United Kingdom shipyard in the last five financial years to be placed in the Library of the House. I have restricted the list to those contracts with a value of £100,000 or more. Below this level, the contracts, estimated to be over 400 in number, tend to be for much smaller packages of work on small craft, some with a value as low as £100. The list includes contracts for work allocated to the Royal Dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth as well as those placed following competition.