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Mr. Terlezki
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of companies which have been established in Wales over the past seven years; and if he will give a breakdown of the countries from which they came.
Mr. Nicholas Edwards
The main countries of origin of the 258 new manufacturing plants opened in Wales since 1 January 1980 for which an origin has been assigned (new start-up manufacturing plants are not assigned a geographical origin) are as follows:
| Number | |
| United Kingdom (excluding Wales) | 129 |
| Wales | 79 |
| Direct Overseas1 | 50 |
| Of which | |
| United States of America | 16 |
| West Germany | 9 |
| Eire | 3 |
| Other EEC | 3 |
| Japan | 6 |
| Canada | 3 |
| Other | 10 |
| 1 The country of origin of a new manufacturing plant is not necessarily the country of ultimate ownership; new overseas manufacturing plants opened since 1980 for which the origin is an overseas-owned plant already in production in the United Kingdom are assigned an origin within the United Kingdom. | |