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Thursday 25th October 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, my noble friend makes an extremely good point.

Lord West of Spithead Portrait Lord West of Spithead
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My Lords, carrying this over to other areas of manufacturing, does the Minister agree that if we do not buy something in this country, other people will not buy it? This is particularly pertinent to defence contracts. In the White Paper, we said we would try to sell lots of things abroad; but no one will buy stuff if you do not buy it yourself. It is rather important that we buy things that we make here.

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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The noble Lord is absolutely brilliant at asking questions that are wide of the Question on the Order Paper.

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