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Draft Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Debate between Stuart Andrew and Mark Tami
Monday 11th February 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

General Committees
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Mark Tami Portrait Mark Tami
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Does the Minister accept that the American alternative is not currently being sold? They will have to restart the production lines to produce our order.

Stuart Andrew Portrait Stuart Andrew
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Those planes are ready at the moment. Some of them are ready for us at the moment. They are on the production line. That will not be an issue at all. As I said, we are still going through a lot of the assessments, but the point is that the Airbus alternative has not even been proven. This is a capability that we need. I agree completely with the hon. Member for Glenrothes that we need to give our armed forces equipment that they can rely on and depend on. This is a classic example of why we have do that.

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