Shipbuilding on the Clyde Debate

Full Debate: Read Full Debate
Department: Ministry of Defence

Gavin Newlands

Main Page: Gavin Newlands (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)

Department Debates - View all Gavin Newlands's debates with the Ministry of Defence


Oral Answers to Questions

Shipbuilding on the Clyde

Gavin Newlands Excerpts

Junior Doctors Contracts
Monday 25th April 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
Share Debate
Read Full debate Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts

Urgent Questions are proposed each morning by backbench MPs, and up to two may be selected each day by the Speaker. Chosen Urgent Questions are announced 30 minutes before Parliament sits each day.

Each Urgent Question requires a Government Minister to give a response on the debate topic.

This information is provided by Parallel Parliament and does not comprise part of the offical record

Philip Dunne Portrait Mr Dunne
- Hansard -
- - Excerpts

All I can say to the hon. Gentleman and to the workforce on the Clyde is that we have, through the SDSR and again today, made a commitment to build eight Type 26s on the Clyde. That will provide work for the highly skilled workforce on the Clyde for many years.

Gavin Newlands Portrait Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) (SNP)
- Hansard -
-

There is a growing sense of anger and frustration on the Clyde, and many of those hard-working and highly skilled workers are starting to feel as though they have been used as constitutional pawns. What does the Minister say in response to the secretary of GMB Scotland, who said that the UK Government’s recent actions in the Clyde are

“a total betrayal of the upper Clyde workforce”?

Philip Dunne Portrait Mr Dunne
- Hansard -
- - Excerpts

I find it hard to characterise a commitment to build eight complex warships on the Clyde as a betrayal. That is what we did in the SDSR and it has not changed.

Return to start of debate - Return to top of page