The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Jamieson
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if it is his intention to continue funding redundancies in the royal dockyard.
Mr. Aitken
Under the term contracts for the operation of the Royal dockyards, my Department has an obligation to reimburse the dockyard operators for the cost of redundancies among their employees arising from reductions in the naval refit programme (subject to their having achieved specified targets for commercial (non-MOD) work). Arrangements for the period after the present term contracts expire have yet to be determined.