§ Mr. David StewartTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the oil fabrication yards in the UK which have access to(a) Objective 1 European funding, (b) Objective 2 European funding, (c) Objective 3 European Funding, (d) special programme funding and (e) assisted area status. [122834]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 19 May 2000]: All of the main UK oil fabrication yards are in areas where European Structural Funds are available in the programming period beginning this year. The Objectives these areas qualify under are listed:
Harland and Wolff, Belfast is in the Northern Ireland special PEACE programme area.Lewis Offshore, Stornoway and Barmac at Nigg and Ardersier are in the Highlands and Islands special transitional Objective 1 area.Consafe Burntisland, Fife is in a transitional Objective 2 area.UIE, Clydebank and Greenock, Kvaerner Methil, Fife, Aker McNulty, South Shields, AMEC, Wallsend, Heerema, Hartlepool, Kvaerner, Teesside, Odebrecht, Teesside and SLP, Lowestoft are all in Objective 2 areas.The new assisted areas are currently under discussion with the European Commission.
§ Mr. David StewartTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what were the employment levels in each of the UK's oil fabrication yards broken down by individual site in May(a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000. [122833]
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§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 19 May 2000]: The employment level at each of the UK's fabrication yards is set out in the table.
Fabrication yard May 1998 May 1999 May 2000 Aker McNulty Ltd.—Tyne & Wear 4,589 503 316 Amec Process & Engineering Ltd.—Tyne & Wear 818 1,478 87 Barmac—Nigg & Ardersier 3,379 4,255 2,954 Consafe—Fife 802 236 104 Hereema—Hartlepool 253 364 102 Kvaerner Oil & Gas—Fife 278 485 805 Kvaerner Oil & Gas—Teeside1 800 1,700 0 Lewis Offshore—Stornoway2 314 136 14 Odebrecht-SLP Engineering—Teeside 267 168 148 SLP 2000—Lowestoft 537 244 216 UiE Clydebank—Glasgow 3,150 1,100 50 1 Now closed 2 In receivership