(Cardiff South and Penarth)
(Lab/Co-op): The Prime Minister does not want to talk about
the numbers of job losses, so let me give him some: British
Airways, 12,000 jobs potentially to go, including in the Vale of
Glamorgan, in Llantrisant and in Blackwood; GE, 1,400 jobs
potentially to go at Nantgarw; Rolls-Royce, nearly
6,000 to go in Derby, Solihull, Glasgow, Rotherham; and, as my
right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition has
pointed out, Airbus, with 1,700 jobs potentially to go in north
Wales and in the south-west, affecting my own constituents. Workers
at those plants do not want to hear slogans. They do not want to
hear bluff and bluster. They want to know from the Prime Minister
what he is going to do to save those jobs in the long term. They
have had the furlough scheme; what is he going to do to protect
them going forward? [904109]
The Prime Minister: I do not wish to accuse the hon.
Gentleman of failing to listen to what I have been saying over
the past few days, but in addition to the £120 billion of support
that we have put into the economy, we have to recognise that
people now are, as he says, worried about their jobs. That is why
we have a plan to build, build, build with a £600 billion
programme of investment and to deliver jobs, jobs, jobs. For
sectors across the country where we need to keep young people in
particular in employment we have offered, as he knows, an
opportunity guarantee so that they will have either an
apprenticeship, an in-work placement or the opportunity for
training.
