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Steel Industry

Volume 174: debated on Thursday 14 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he or any agency responsible to him has commissioned a business plan for an independent Scottish steel industry.

No, nor would it be appropriate for my right hon. and learned Friend to do so.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has formally asked British Steel if it is prepared to sell its Scottish assets to enable them to form the basis of an independent Scottish steel industry.

The chairman of British Steel has assured my right hon. and learned Friend and me that if the company should wish at some stage to close its steelmaking facilities at Ravenscraig, it would consider on a commercial basis, any wholly private sector offer for those facilities as an alternative to closure.

Provision for under 5s in Scotland (pupils or places)
1978–791979–801980–811981–821982–831983–841984–851985–861986–871987–881988–89
Borders1,7281,4161,3211,4221,9522,0202,0772,1302,2392,4312,282
Central4,1824,1424,3834,6474,8085,0555,0895,3215,6286,0086,373
Dumfries and Galloway1,4921,5481,5711,6731,9512,0602,2652,1272,2782,4282,695
Fife6,6765,8045,8175,7297,2146,6277,0737,2317,4997,9218,370
Grampian7,9557,7487,9818,2118,1348,2308,7418,4908,7648,9159,617
Highland2,9233,0603,2303,4263,7293,3393,5724,1404,0104,2294,727
Lothian14,66513,72714,15214,01813,85914,52415,35614,94716,10916,40618,217
Strathclyde36,27834,64636,92535,66237,91539,88140,11339,34340,30144,76741,557
Tayside5,9986,2695,9205,6206,1456,2326,2445,7606,4866,8587,636
Orkney472558543506548553643522700729811
Shetland518622630671677578575649665699708
Western Isles4314985384795896791,2741,5871,6801,503968
Scotland83,31880,04083,64382,05686,82189,74893,02292,24796,359102,894103,961