Extract from Commons statement on Bombardier The Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy (Richard Harrington):...First, I did say that this is a
commercial decision, and it is a commercial decision. The last time
I looked, Bombardier was not a nationalised industry, so it is not
at all a question of the Government making people redundant. The
Government’s support for Bombardier and for aerospace generally is
unmatched by any time in history....Request free trial
Extract from Commons
statement on Bombardier
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy (Richard
Harrington):...First, I did say that this is a commercial
decision, and it is a commercial decision. The last time I looked,
Bombardier was not a nationalised industry, so it is not at all a
question of the Government making people redundant. The
Government’s support for Bombardier and for aerospace generally is
unmatched by any time in history. Bombardier is an important part
of the Aerospace Growth Partnership, which I chair jointly with
Colin Smith, an industry veteran and former president
of Rolls-Royce. We have channelled about £1.95
billion to support R&D, of which Bombardier is the
beneficiary...
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Extract from Lords
debate on Universal Sustainable Developments Goals
(Lab):...However, it has been disappointing to see in the
last 10 years or more that in the UK, after 2010 the coalition
Government and then the Conservative Government deliberately
suppressed some of the integrated policy methods—particularly the
one in which the Sure Start programme, which followed America, had
been very effective. As I have seen, these were stopped in many
villages and elsewhere in the UK. Equally, we had quite an
effective system in Britain of regional economic initiatives. These
were also immediately suppressed by the Conservatives when the
coalition Government came to power. During a recent science
committee meeting in the House of Lords, Rolls-Royce commented that, as a result of
the demise of these regional economic initiatives, many companies
that feed into big companies such as Rolls-Royce were not working so well. There
has been partial reinstatement with local enterprise boards, but
they are not as effective at what we had before...
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statement on Bombardier
(Con):...The Government firmly believe that the aerospace
sector is one that we really need to be involved in. Wings are
manufactured by Airbus and Bombardier, as we have heard. We have
engines from Rolls-Royce, aerostructures from Spirit,
Bombardier, GKN and Melrose, and advanced systems from Safran, UTC,
Thales and GE Aviation. The total turnover of the aerospace sector
is £33.5 billion. It supports direct employment of 124,000 people
and indirect employment of 167,000 people. The average salary is
£41,000 a year. We know that growth is coming in the sector. It is
estimated that we will need 35,000 new large passenger aircraft
over the next 20 years. They will be greener, quieter and more
efficient. It is very important that the Government involve
themselves in the sector and put their money into the right
projects that need research, so that we can be a major part of
creating those new aircraft...
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