Nicholas Brown
Main Page: Nicholas Brown (Independent - Newcastle upon Tyne East)(12 years, 3 months ago)
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Vince Cable
There were certainly many mistakes in that era, which I saw at first hand; I was in government at the time. We are determined to learn from both the positive and the negative experiences of that time.
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East) (Lab)
If the Government have an industrial strategy supported right across government, why is HMS Ark Royal to be decommissioned abroad, rather than in the north-east of England, where she has a long association and where there are eight workers for every job available? The shipbuilding skills are there to decommission the ship in the north-east: why cannot that be done?