It is disappointing, therefore, that these successful efforts should now be met with the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.

When he tells us that the labour forcehas fallen and has been falling consistently for many years, he does so as if the revelation suddenly came upon him in the year 1961 with a Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.

The Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry is about bad productivity and bad labour relations.

9 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter which should have urgent attention, namely,the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry in the Upper Clyde affecting the livelihood of 14,000 directly and 80,000 families indirectly and the future prosperity of Scotland".

The hon. Lady has asked leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that she thinks should have urgent consideration, namely,the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry in the Upper Clyde affecting the livelihood of 14,000 directly and 80,000 families indirectly and the future prosperity of Scotland.

In reaching that controversial decision to concentrate the Fleet programme on the lead yard, the Ministry of Defence unleashed a major Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry along the Mersey.

I say frankly, as one who has to face a new Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry on practically every working day, that we are hard put to it to hold the line.

They appear to be more concerned with that ideology than with industrial strategy or policies to end the massive Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry, which can only be heightened by the Government's proposals.

They said that from their experience of the great danger facing working people and their families in Scotland as the result of the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry, it was time for the Government to adopt a positive maritime policy.

The business on the Opposition's fourth allotted day on Tuesday, 27 November will now be as follows: until about 7 o'clock a debate on an Opposition motion on the failure of Government policies to safeguard the natural environment and the national heritage of Britain, followed by a debate on an Opposition motion on the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.

I quoted Sir Robert Atkinson at some length because it is important that the House and the nation should realise that the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry is crucial, is happening now, and is thought to be happening now by those who know and care about the industry, and it is now that urgent action is required.

We have not yet heard from the Government an urgency that in any way matches the Crisis of the Shipbuilding Industry.

First, they have failed to analyse correctly the nature of the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry, and from that failure they have moved to the most Lamontable of conclusions.

If Opposition Members want to know where the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry is, I suggest that they fly to Athens.

Until that is sorted out, we shall always have a Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.

The reason why we have to discuss redundancies at all is the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.

The Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry has been with us since the mid-1970s.

At the same time as the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry there is that in merchant shipping.

We heard all about the depressing state of affairs throughout the world and the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry without any recognition that the decline in capacity and in the merchant fleet has been twice as had here as it has been even for European neighbours such as Italy and West Germany.

The European Commission and the member Governments have still not agreed a new programme on the regional and social consequences of the Crisis in the Shipbuilding Industry.