Building a High-Skilled Economy Debate
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John Pugh
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Building a High-Skilled Economy
John Pugh Excerpts(14 years, 5 months ago)
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Dr John Pugh (Southport) (LD)
The hon. Gentleman talks about the British train industry and construction in this country, but does he think it was a good idea that the previous Labour Government placed so many orders for extra carriages in Japan?
Chris Williamson
Clearly, we live in a global economy, in which orders are placed with different companies around the world—Bombardier won some contracts, but some went abroad—but the fact is that the Transport Secretary said this morning that there is now no prospect of Bombardier getting the Thameslink contract.