Extract from Defence
Questions (Commons): Defence Procurement
(Amber Valley) (Con): What recent estimate his Department has
made of the number of jobs that defence procurement supports in
the UK.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (): MOD expenditure with UK
industry and commerce supported 119,000 jobs in the UK in the
financial year 2018-19, including more than 10,000 jobs in the
midlands engine.
:
Many businesses across Amber Valley benefit from MOD contracts,
but there are many more that could. What more can the Department
do to work alongside businesses to help spread out these
contracts and jobs around the country?
: I congratulate my hon.
Friend on raising this issue. Since taking on this brief, I have
been interested to discover how the MOD might broaden access for
small and medium-sized enterprises, and he represents exactly the
sort of constituency where such opportunities are greatest. There
will be businesses in his area that can contribute directly to
the MOD supply chain, but with Rolls-Royce in Derby immediately
to the south of his constituency, we can work with our prime
contractors to ensure that they can also access those supply
chains.
Extract from Delegated
Legislation committee consideration of the Draft Electricity
Supplier Obligations (Excluded Electricity) (Amendment)
Regulations 2019
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy ():...As to our investment in
nuclear, I was at Hinkley Point C last week, to see the
first-in-a-generation nuclear reactor project. It is remarkable,
not just for what we are building, but for the apprenticeships
coming through in the industry. It is a real revival of the
nuclear industry. We are also investing in innovation around SMRs
with Rolls-Royce and in the future of
advanced modular reactors...
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