Ministerial Corrections

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Ministerial Corrections

Wednesday 14 December 2016

Defence

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Ministerial Corrections

Armed Forces: Equipment

The following is an extract from Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence on 12 December 2016.

[Edward Argar (Charnwood) (Con)]

Will my hon. Friend the Minister reassure me that we will continue to provide our armed forces with the best possible equipment and that, where appropriate and where that standard is met, that will be equipment developed and manufactured in the UK?

[Harriett Baldwin]

My hon. Friend is right that we need to focus on the best equipment and getting the right capability for our armed forces. We will also always seek the best value for money for the taxpayer, but we will seek to get that UK content as strong as possible. The F-35 is an example. Fifteen per cent. of each of the 3,000 planes in the global programme are made at Warton in the north-west, and the UK has been selected as the global hub for a large number of elements for the maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade of those fantastic aircraft.— [Official Report, 12 December 2016, Vol. 618, c. 495.]

Letter of correction from Harriett Baldwin:

An error has been identified in the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Charnwood (Edward Argar) during Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence.

The correct response should have been:

[Harriett Baldwin]

My hon. Friend is right that we need to focus on the best equipment and getting the right capability for our armed forces. We will also always seek the best value for money for the taxpayer, but we will seek to get that UK content as strong as possible. The F-35 is an example. Fifteen per cent. of each of the 3,000 planes in the global programme are made at Samlesbury in the north-west, and the UK has been selected as the global hub for a large number of elements for the maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade of those fantastic aircraft.

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Ministerial Corrections

Tidal Lagoons and UK Energy Strategy

The following is an extract from the response to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) during the Westminster Hall debate on tidal lagoons and UK energy strategy by the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman) on 6 December 2016. The answer given was as follows:

[Jesse Norman]

I am sorry to have given up time for that intervention, because I was coming to that point. SeaGen, as the hon. Gentleman recognises, was a research test bed, and it is being decommissioned now. It received a £10 million grant from the Department, and those conclusions are being carefully assessed. It is a project in which there has already been public investment.

[Official Report, 6 December 2016, Vol. 618, c. 47WH.]

Letter of correction from Jesse Norman:

An error has been identified in a response I gave to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) during the Westminster Hall debate on tidal lagoons and UK energy strategy.

The correct response should have been:

[Jesse Norman]

I am sorry to have given up time for that intervention, because I was coming to that point. SeaGen, as the hon. Gentleman recognises, was a research test bed, and it is being decommissioned now. It received a £5.2 million grant from the Department, and those conclusions are being carefully assessed. It is a project in which there has already been public investment.