Leaving the EU: Airbus Risk Assessment

David Hanson Excerpts
Monday 25th June 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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I agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that the House can tell that I regard the prospect of a good agreement as being within our grasp. That is our objective, and it is what this company and many others want from us.

David Hanson Portrait David Hanson (Delyn) (Lab)
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Airbus makes great play in its statement of the need to remain in the European Aviation Safety Agency, because regulating in that way means that planes can fly. What confidence can the Secretary of State give to my constituents, including the chair of the trade union group and the 1,500 people in my patch who work there, that we will still have that proper regulation after Brexit?

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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That is precisely what the Prime Minister set out in her Mansion House speech: we want and need to secure an agreement such that we will not require a different set of regulatory standards. I am confident that we will be able to agree that.