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What are the latest figures for the number of employees in the (a) catering, (b) clothing manufacture, (c) linen and (d) road haulage industries. - Inc figs.

Asked by
Lord Spellar (Labour)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 December 1994
Reference
251 c580-1W;251 c580W
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers
Notes
Received 20.12.94
Date
7 December 1994
Reference
HC 81 1994/95
House
House of Commons

What information he has concerning interests of the Chairman of the Northern Ireland Industrial Development Board in the textile industry; and what assessment he has made of the objectivity of the consideration given by the Board to the application by the Hualon Corporation for a grant of ÂŁ61 million for...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 November 1994
Reference
250 c773-4W;250 c772W
House
House of Commons

Whether he will make available in the Library copies of the minutes of all those meetings of the Northern Ireland Development Board at which the subject of grant aid to the Hualon Corporation was discussed.

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 1994
Reference
250 c40W
House
House of Commons

What action he intends to take following the statement, details of which have been sent to him, made by a senior executive of the Hualon Corporation relating to their proposed production of high quality clothing products at facilities in Northern Ireland for which they have been awarded grant aid by...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 1994
Reference
250 c40W
House
House of Commons

If the Export Credits Guarantee Department, whilst under Government ownership, was ever subject to a claim for payment from Stone Platt International, Platt Hollingsworth, Platt Saco-Lowell, John D Hollingsworth, Longclose Engineering, Platt Longclose, Stone Platt Industries or Platt Brothers, relating to the export of textile machinery supplied to PT Westra...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 1994
Reference
250 c23W
House
House of Commons

To make it policy to suspend, pending outcome of an investigation by Public Accounts Committee, proposed grant to Hualon Corporation in connection with development of new textile facilities in Northern Ireland. (Holding answer 24 October 1994).

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 October 1994
Reference
248 c666W;248 c668W
House
House of Commons

What recent representations he has received concerning the proposed grant to the Hualon Corporation in connection with the development of new textile facilities in Northern Ireland. - (Holding answer 24 October 1994).

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 1994
Reference
248 c543W;248 c545W
House
House of Commons

If he will now make it his policy to suspend, pending the outcome of an investigation by the Committee of Public Accounts, the proposed grant to the Hualon Corporation in connection with the development of new textile facilities in Northern Ireland. - (Holding answer 24 October 1994). (Question reprinted with...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 1994
Reference
248 c543W;248 (Not in Bound Volume)
House
House of Commons

What information he has concerning the type of looms which the Hualon Corporation is intending to purchase for use in the facilities in Northern Ireland for which it has been awarded a ÂŁ61 million grant; what steps he has taken to check with the manufacturers of those looms Hualon's assertion...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 October 1994
Reference
248 c455W;248 c453W
House
House of Commons

If he will list the textile companies, trades unions or textile employers' organisations which have to date welcomed the proposed grant to the Hualon Corporation in connection with the development of new textile facilites in Northern Ireland.

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 October 1994
Reference
248 c455W;248 c453W
House
House of Commons

Upon which date, and in what sum, the first payment is expected to be made to the Hualon Corporation in connection with the proposed grant to the Corporation for the development of new textile facilities in Northern Ireland.

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 October 1994
Reference
248 c455W;248 c453W
House
House of Commons

Pursuant to his Answer 12th July, Official Report, 246 c539W, if he will publish a table adding the percentage change since 1989 in real average weekly earnings of (a) full-time primary school teachers, (b) hospital porters, (c) hospital ward orderlies, (d) NHS ancillary staff, (e) NHS maintenance staff, (f) local...

Asked by
Austin Mitchell (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Employment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 October 1994
Reference
248 c279W;248 c277-8W
House
House of Commons

How many and what percentage of employees in (a) coal mining, (b) water supply, (c) textiles, (d) rail transport, (e) local government, (f) the Fire Service, (g) the police, (h) the courts, (i) defence, (j) security, (k) schools and (l) higher education belonged to a trade union in each year...

Asked by
Roland Boyes (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Employment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 October 1994
Reference
248 c74W;248 c72-4W
House
House of Commons

Statement on the outcome of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 18th and 19th July.

Asked by
Lord Bates (Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 July 1994
Reference
247 c517-8W
House
House of Commons

What representations his Department has received concerning estimated job losses associated with the award of investment aid to the Hualon Corporation in connection with the development of new textile facilities in Northern Ireland.

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1994
Reference
247 c339W;247 c340W
House
House of Commons

Whether his Department relayed to the Northern Ireland Office the estimate of job losses provided by Sir David Alliance CBE to him at a meeting of the Manufacturing and Construction Industries Alliance on Monday 13th June and associated with the award of investment aid to the Hualon Corporation in connection...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1994
Reference
247 c332W;247 c333W
House
House of Commons

Pursuant to his Answers of 8th July, Official Report, columns 359-60W, how much money is being made available, and when, to the Hualon Corporation in the form of inward investment and other incentives to encourage it to proceed with plans to open a new facility in Northern Ireland. - Fig...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1994
Reference
247 c339W;247 c340W
House
House of Commons

Pursuant to his Answers of 8th July, Official Report, columns 359-60W, if he will identify the leading independent internationally recognised consultants from whom he sought advice in connection with the implications for existing companies prior to reaching conclusions about the award of investment aid to encourage the opening of new...

Asked by
Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1994
Reference
247 c338-9W;247 c339-40W
House
House of Commons

When he expects to be able to renegotiate the size of the United Kingdom's EC quota for the import of silk and silk products from China; and various other questions on UK's EC quota for the imports of silk and silk products from China.

Asked by
Alan Duncan (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 July 1994
Reference
246 c509-10W
House
House of Commons