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EU Customs Union and Draft Withdrawal Agreement: Cost
Monday 22nd October 2018

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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If my hon. Friend will allow me, I will write to him to clarify the matter.

Paul Sweeney Portrait Mr Paul Sweeney (Glasgow North East) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Secretary of State has commended the work and the crew of HMS Albion, one of our landing platform docks in the South China sea. Bizarrely, however, the national shipbuilding strategy has defined it as not being a complex warship, unlike frigates, destroyers and aircraft carriers. Can the Secretary of State explain why HMS Albion and other amphibious ships are not deemed to be complex warships?

Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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The national shipbuilding strategy highlighted the fact that the definition was to apply to aircraft carriers, frigates and destroyers, and the strategy was welcomed on both sides of the House.

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