Shipbuilding

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1991.

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Photo of Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Trade and Industry) 12:00, 23 January 1991

Around 28,000 are employed in shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, of whom about 6,500 are in merchant shipbuilding. Merchant shipbuilding capacity is 205,000 compensated gross tonnes. Comparable figures are not available for warshipbuilding.