Jeremy Lefroy
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Jeremy Lefroy Excerpts(9 years ago)
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The Prime Minister
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the partnerships that we formed with the defence industry and the aerospace industry are the basis of a long-term plan to work with them, and they can now see our long-term commitments on defence spending. We want to see more British steel procured for Government expenditure such as this. Almost all of the 82,000 tonnes involved in the carrier programme was sourced from British steel, and I very much hope that that can be the case with these future procurements as well.
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)
The global challenges research and Ross funds are superb ideas of the Prime Minister’s. Can we get on with them, please?
The Prime Minister
I am very grateful for my hon. Friend’s support. He is very knowledgeable about these issues, and I am glad he thinks we made the right choices.