Rolls-Royce Redundancies

Tom Pursglove Excerpts
Thursday 14th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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The hon. Lady knows—we have had previous exchanges on this across this Dispatch Boxes—that the future of the employees there depends on defence export orders. I think she would acknowledge that there is no one more vigorous than our colleagues in the Ministry of Defence, the Department for International Trade and my Department when it comes to meeting businesses and those who are in defence procurement to emphasise the good quality and importance of our aerospace industry right across the country.

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove (Corby) (Con)
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As my right hon. Friend knows, I am a big supporter of the value of the industrial strategy for midlands manufacturing, so what specific role does he see for Rolls-Royce within it?