Stephen Hepburn
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(6 years, 11 months ago)
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Gavin Williamson
My hon. Friend makes an important point about exploiting the “Five Eyes” relationship in terms of defence exports. I have raised that with my Australian and Canadian counterparts. We need to create a platform that uses not just British products, but Canadian and Australian products, to encourage them to purchase the platform.
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab)
In any defence contract, what conditions do the Government put in to ensure the use of British labour, new apprenticeships and British components?
Gavin Williamson
The Ministry of Defence has created 20,000 apprenticeship places in the past few years. Everything we do in our negotiations with firms, both UK based and international, aims to bring as much work content as possible into the United Kingdom.