Shipyards (Building Components)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Public Building and Works – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 February 1964.

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Photo of Mr George Lawson Mr George Lawson , Motherwell 12:00, 18 February 1964

Will the right hon. Gentleman take it from us that we are very happy about the efforts being made in this connection; that we welcome them, and seek to press him to continue and to expand them? To what extent is he capable of using, for example, the National Building Agency in giving advice to the shipbuilding yards, bearing in mind that those yards are entering into something that is not their field at all, and that the commercial initiative required in shipbuilding and that required in other fields are quite different, and that this type of advice as well as the other is required?