Extract from BEIS Questions: Jaguar Land Rover - May 1

Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con): Jeremy Hicks will have told my hon. Friend that the problem is in part uncertainty over diesel engines, but my hon. Friend knows that JLR is particularly keen on developing electric cars. Will he comment on the £80 million Government investment in new battery technology? 

Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): Get plugged in.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Richard Harrington): As usual, my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) makes a good point—although, unusually, on this occasion he did not mention the John Lewis Partnership. Our Faraday battery challenge, which he indirectly refers to, will ensure that this country is at the forefront of battery technology, and JLR and other companies are firmly behind it.