Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: British Shipbuilders

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row five of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, what the spending under British Shipbuilders relates to.


Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019

The Department has responsibility for liabilities arising from the former publicly-owned company British Shipbuilders. The liabilities largely relate to damages due to former workers who were exposed to asbestos over a period until the late 1980s.

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