Fylde MP urges Government to order Typhoon jets to protect thousands of Lancashire jobs at BAE

Lancashire Post

Fylde MP Andrew Snowden has called on the Government to place an order for more Typhoon fighter jets from BAE Systems, warning thousands jobs are at risk.

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00:00This is obviously the second time that we have seen a crisis in the steel industry in the last

00:05year. This impacts across other industries that are commercially operated that are critical for

00:10our national security. In Lancashire, the failure to place an order for 25 typhoon jets is risking

00:16thousands of jobs in the critical defence industry of BAE systems. We're also seeing a lack of join

00:22up between government departments, not realising that whole life cycle manufacturing of nuclear

00:27fuel, which is equally critical for our national infrastructure and impacting on hundreds of

00:33highly skilled jobs in Lancashire at the Westinghouse-Springfield site. So could the Minister

00:37update me on the work that she is doing with the Department for Defence to ensure that these

00:42commercially operated industries that are critical to our national defence capabilities and national

00:49security are properly strategically supported to be sustainable into the future?

00:53Minister.

00:54Can I thank him for the question? He's right to point out the importance of our defence industry

00:57and the need for us to support that. Of course, the industrial strategy outlined eight growth-driving

01:02sectors that we believe, through support from government, can really turbocharge in terms

01:08of growth, and defence was one of those. We've published the eight sector plans, apart from

01:13the defence one, which will be coming shortly, so he should look out for that. Of course, we've

01:17increased funding on defence very significantly. That will lead to thousands of jobs across the

01:22UK. And I work very closely with my colleagues in defence, particularly the defence procurement

01:27minister, to make sure we are procuring UK jobs where we can and supporting our industry to grow.

01:34Well, what is the lack?

01:50Well, we also have then the favours. We nak what bid 2 penguzieink mash under window device and

01:53Covid 2-707352. And we don't need waterри records as well.

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