Extract from Commons debate on the Queen's Speech - Jan 20
Tuesday, 21 January 2020 08:45
Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con)...One thing that I would like to say to
those on the Treasury Bench is that we should not only be
recognising the work that we are doing at the moment, but always
looking to the future. At the last Farnborough air show the former
Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs
May), announced the Government’s clear commitment to supporting the
future fighter programme and, indeed, Team Tempest. That benefited
not just BAE Systems but the likes...Request free trial
(Fylde) (Con)...One thing that I would like to say to those on the
Treasury Bench is that we should not only be recognising the work
that we are doing at the moment, but always looking to the future.
At the last Farnborough air show the former Prime Minister, my
right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), announced
the Government’s clear commitment to supporting the future fighter
programme and, indeed, Team Tempest. That benefited not just BAE
Systems but the likes of Leonardo and Rolls-Royce to name but a few...
...As I said earlier, the other issue on which I want to
focus is nuclear. Much attention is rightly given to decarbonising
the economy and building a low-carbon future, and, yes, renewables
are central to that, but so too is nuclear. My constituency has the
only nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in the UK, Springfields,
which provides just over 1,000 jobs. This is about how we look to
the future for nuclear fuel and, indeed, nuclear energy production
in the United Kingdom. It is not just about building the big, very
expensive power plants with which we are familiar, but about
investing in modern technology such as that being driven by
Rolls-Royce. I am, of course, referring to small and advanced
modular reactors. This is technology that is UK-developed and
UK-owned; it can also be UK-manufactured and UK-exported...
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