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Mr. Gordon Brown
asked the Secretary of State for Defence why Mr. Peter Levene, while chairman of United Scientific Holdings and a senior office-bearer of the Defence Manufacturers Association, was asked to approach defence manufacturers with a view to ascertaining their interest in contracts for managing the royal dockyards.
Mr. Butler
In order to establish the likely extent of such interest.