00:00So what we can do is we can break it down by constituency, so a great one to look at
00:07would be Preston. So currently in Preston there's 991 employees working on the combat
00:15air system. All of those are BE systems. Sometimes there is a difference if they work for the
00:21other companies like a Rolls-Royce or an MBDA box that goes forward because a big BE presence
00:26is there. So we can look at that. We can look at the supply chain. We can look at the
00:32fact that we've got two enterprise suppliers and two SME suppliers. SME suppliers being
00:38small to medium enterprises. Other little areas in the north filed or slid home to our
00:46Wharton site. Plenty of people in that area are working on the combat air programme. It's
00:52kind of been a hub over the last couple of years. There's a couple of people that aren't
00:57BE systems employees. They're looking for the main chunk of that people.
01:03So this whole app is just kind of a summary to see where people are working.
01:08Exactly, yeah. So we've had MPs coming in for the last couple of days and we'll have
01:12them today and tomorrow coming in and they want to look at their constituency to see
01:18how many people are working there and see how we can improve that.
01:22I can also break down by region as well. So for the north west, we have 16 FCAS suppliers.
01:32We're partnered with one academia that we've got suppliers with 16 small to medium enterprises.
01:39MBDA systems obviously is a huge power in the north west. So we employ over 10,000 people.
01:46There's only a couple of hundred that aren't BE systems that work in that space.
01:52And we can break that down for the other ones as well. So yeah, MPs have been absolutely
01:58loving that as well. And then there's just some generic information on the tempers.
02:04So we expect £37 billion to go into the UDP by 2070. The north west will be one of the
02:12largest benefactors of that. So there's a real push to take money away from London
02:17to redistribute it up and down the UK. So the north west over £13 billion, the south
02:22west over £8 billion.
02:24So the north west is kind of seen as the central hub kind of going forward?
02:29Yeah, at the moment, yeah. So that's mainly because of Solentry and Wharton. Obviously
02:33BE systems being the LSI in the UK, that's where you'd expect the most activity. Whether
02:40that changes that, I'm not sure. But for the town being the north west, it's definitely
02:44the hub of the town.
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