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Mr. Stratton Mills
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of ordnance factories and the number of persons employed therein at the latest convenient date.
Mr. Ramsden
There are, under the control of the War Office, thirteen active Royal Ordnance Factories and one under care and maintenance. They are at present employing 25,000 people.
Mr. Stratton Mills
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of ordnance factories in development areas and in Northern Ireland, and the number of persons employed therein at the latest convenient date.
Mr. Ramsden
There are two factories, employing 3,736 staff on 1st May, 1961, in development areas in Renfrewshire and Carmarthenshire. There are no ordnance factories in Northern Ireland.