Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the future of GE engineering in Rugby.

My rt. hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Secretary of State for Defence regularly engage on areas of joint interest.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence on 7th September 2018 to Question 167268 regarding that Department's procurement of Type 26 programme components across the United Kingdom and overseas.