Extract from Commons debate on the Queen's Speech - Oct 24
Friday, 25 October 2019 08:33
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab): Last week, union
representatives from Rolls-Royce came to see my hon. Friend the
Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey) and me. Rolls-Royce
is one of the main anchors of the UK’s aerospace sector and has
operations in no less than nine EU member states. They came to tell
us about their worries, the most direct and immediate being the
disastrous impact that a no-deal Brexit would have on their sector.
They were also clear that avoiding a...Request free trial
(Birmingham, Northfield)
(Lab): Last week, union representatives from Rolls-Royce came to
see my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington () and me. Rolls-Royce is one of
the main anchors of the UK’s aerospace sector and has operations in
no less than nine EU member states. They came to tell us about
their worries, the most direct and immediate being the disastrous
impact that a no-deal Brexit would have on their sector. They were
also clear that avoiding a no-deal Brexit was not enough, and they
left us in no doubt about the importance to the long-term health of
their company and their sector of preserving the frictionless trade
that is key to their sector’s success and which prevents the
dislocation of the integrated operations of that company and its
supply chains across the EU. In short, they echoed the very issues
that the aerospace, food and drink, pharmaceuticals and automotive
sectors had put to the Government in a letter just the week
before...
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