Royal Yacht Debate

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Industrial Strategy

Royal Yacht

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Prevent Strategy
Wednesday 26th October 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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Yes, my Lords. No government funding has been proposed by any government department.

Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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My Lords, do the Government agree that it would be totally wrong to adopt such a measure, given that the Royal Navy has no ships, and those that we have keep breaking down? Would that not give the wrong message to the country?

Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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My Lords, I do not accept the noble Lord’s premise. The Royal Navy has a fleet of ships that bears comparison with any in the world for cutting-edge technology, and we can be proud of that. However, to come back to the noble Lord’s central point, I believe that there are other ways of marketing the UK abroad.

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