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Written Question
BAE Systems: Barrow in Furness
Monday 4th November 2024

Asked by: James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the fire at Barrow nuclear shipyard.

Answered by Maria Eagle - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

I refer the hon. Member to the written statement I laid in the House on 30 October 2024, HCWS176.

Westminster Hall
Transport Connectivity: North-west England - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Middleton South) In fact, we would get more out of investment in transport links in the north-west than the south-east - Speech Link
2: Lizzi Collinge (Lab - Morecambe and Lunesdale) million in Westmorland and Furness. - Speech Link
3: Andy MacNae (Lab - Rossendale and Darwen) The previous Government and the systems that they put in place manifestly failed to do that, but I believe - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) to the economy of the whole country, and includes BAE at Barrow and Sellafield on the west coast. - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) and elsewhere in the country, the north-west in particular. - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Apprenticeships - Tue 04 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michelle Scrogham (Lab - Barrow and Furness) Friend is a passionate advocate for apprenticeships, which play a huge role in Barrow and Furness and - Speech Link
2: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) defence sector and in Barrow, so I know full well the great expertise of apprentices in the defence - Speech Link
3: Frank McNally (Lab - Coatbridge and Bellshill) In an area in which one in four children are living in poverty, the route through education and entering - Speech Link
4: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Flawed policy in the past means that there has been a clear drop-off in new apprentices in recent years - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Friends the Members for Stafford (Leigh Ingham), for Barrow and Furness (Michelle Scrogham), for Gloucester - Speech Link

Select Committee
3rd report - The Global Combat Air Programme

Report Jan. 14 2025

Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: BAE Systems is the national “lead systems integrator” (LSI) and works alongside the MOD with other

Commons Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
2nd reading - Thu 05 Sep 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Michelle Scrogham (Lab - Barrow and Furness) Barrow and Furness, and many other towns across the UK, in a supply chain of tens of thousands of jobs.Our - Speech Link
2: Richard Tice (RUK - Boston and Skegness) Member for Barrow and Furness (Michelle Scrogham) on that excellent speech. - Speech Link

MP Financial Interest
Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Original Source (15th April 2024)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: BAE Systems
Address of donor: Barrow-in-Furness LA14 1AF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Associated with a visit to see the construction of Royal Navy submarines, air shuttle for myself and a member of staff, value £400
Date received: 26 September 2023
Date accepted: 26 September 2023
Donor status: company, registration 01470151
(Registered 18 October 2023)
Written Statements
Nuclear Defence - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) It articulates how, in response to the evolving security environment, we will deliver the capabilities - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Submarine Delivery Agency

Dec. 18 2024

Source Page: Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA): Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: build facility at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness comprises two buildings (D58 and D59

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Defence

Dec. 18 2024

Source Page: Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA): Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: build facility at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness comprises two buildings (D58 and D59

Written Statements
AUKUS: BAE Systems Submarine Contract - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) contested and volatile landscape, defence partnerships like AUKUS have become critically important in - Speech Link