Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Feryal Clark Excerpts
Monday 30th January 2023

(1 year, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Secretary of State, we have got to get through all the questions, not just the first ones.

Feryal Clark Portrait Feryal Clark (Enfield North) (Lab)
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I refer the House to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As a proud member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, I have been lucky enough to visit some of our fellow NATO Parliamentary Assembly members, such as the US and Spain, which take huge pride in their buoyant shipbuilding sectors. The Secretary of State talks about the ships being put together in this country. With contracts being awarded outside the UK, or a large portion of them being completed abroad, how does he expect to keep investment in the UK—

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I am sorry, it is not fair to everybody else. I am bringing you in on a supplementary; it does not mean you can take all day. Try to answer it, Secretary of State.