Oral Answers to Questions

Claire Hazelgrove Excerpts

Tuesday 4th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Torsten Bell)]

What this Government have done to steady the markets is to kick the Conservatives out of office and leave them in opposition for years to come.

[Claire Hazelgrove (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Lab)]

I welcome our Government’s recent Typhoon deal with Türkiye, which will see the brilliant team at Rolls-Royce in Filton play a key role in engine production and maintenance. Will the Chancellor join me in congratulating them, our local small and medium-sized enterprises and others, and set out how integral she sees defence as an engine for growth?

[Rachel Reeves]

My hon. Friend is a solid defender of businesses and working people in her constituency. The defence industrial strategy is about supporting British industry as we—and other countries around the world—up what we spend on defence. We want British businesses and British workers to benefit from that investment.