Shipyards

Mr. Welsh
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many shipyards were operational in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the past 10 years. [7276]

Mr. Eggar
The following table gives the numbers of operational United Kingdom shipyards known to the Department, and building merchant ships of 100 gross tonnes or more, over the past six years.------
|Year|
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|1990|
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|1991|
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|1992|
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|1993|
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|1994|
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|1995|
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Information for earlier years and by country could be produced only at disproportionate costs.