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Mr. Robin F. Cook
asked the Secretary of State for Industry what plans he has for further advance factory building in the assisted areas.
Mr. Heffer
I am pleased to announce the following new programme which will provide 24 factories at an estimated cost of £3¼ million. Part of the programme takes up the balance of the special allocation to provide early help to the construction industry announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 11th September 1974, and most of the locations will, therefore, be on land we already own or will shortly purchase. I also have to announce that the Department is taking over from the Property Services Agency a 21-acre site at Gillmoss, Liverpool, which we plan to redevelop with modern factories.
| List of factories. | |
| sq feet | |
| Scotland | |
| Queenslie (Glasgow) | 25,000 |
| Lochlands (Falkirk) | 20,000 |
| Shotts | 20,000 |
| Edinburgh* | 15,000 |
| 80,000 | |
| Northern Region | |
| Sunderland (Leechmere) | 2×15,000 |
| Tanfield Lea | 25,000 |
| Tynemouth | 15,000 |
| 70,000 | |
| North-West | |
| Knowsley (Terrace Units) | 15,000 |
| Lancaster | 15,000 |
| Burnley | 15,000 |
| 45,000 | |
| Wales | |
| Fishguard (Terrace Units) | 2×5,000 |
| Portmadoc | 10,000 |
| Gaerwen | 10,000 |
| Ynyscedwyn (Terrace Units) | 2×5,000 |
| 40,000 | |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | |
| Doncaster | 2×15,000 |
| 30,000 | |
| East Midlands | |
| Chesterfield | 15,000 |
| Clay Cross | 15,000 |
| 30,000 |
| sq. feet | |
| South-West | |
| Pennryn | 10,000 |
| Plymouth | 10,000 |
| Newquay | 10,000 |
| 30,000 | |
| GRAND TOTAL | 325,000 |
| * Increase in size of factory already announced. | |