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Mr. Dewar
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total Government subsidy paid to ferry and shipping operators in each of the last three years in Scotland, together with his Department's expected expenditure in the current financial year; and if he will list the sums paid to each recipient company in each of those years.
Mr. Allan Stewart
The information requested is set out in the following table:
| Out-turn | Estimate | |||
| 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | |
| £ million | ||||
| Total support of which | 5·1 | 7·4 | 9·1 | 10·6 |
| Caledonian MacBrayne | 3·7 | 5·1 | 5·8 | 6·12 |
| Orkney Islands Shipping Company | 0·8 | 0·7 | 0·9 | 1·05 |
| P & O Ferries | 0·6 | 1·5 | 1·9 | 2·4 |
| Bulk Shipping companies of which | — | 0·1 | 0·53 | 1·05 |
| £ thousand | ||||
| H. Carmichael | — | — | 5 | 10 |
| R. Cunningham | — | — | 11 | 36 |
| Wm Dennison | — | — | 25 | 65 |
| Glenlight Shipping Ltd. | — | 103 | 201 | 280 |
| Hay & Co. Ltd. | — | 8 | 134 | 205 |
| Northern Shipping & Trading & Co | — | — | 5 | 20 |
| Shetland Line | — | 12 | 148 | 217 |