Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Andrea Jenkyns Excerpts
Monday 26th November 2018

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stuart Andrew Portrait Stuart Andrew
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The national shipbuilding strategy is there so that we do everything we can to make sure that we have an industry that is competitive not just in this country, but across the globe, and that is exactly what we are trying to do. By getting the fleet solid support ships through international competition, we can secure a good price for the British taxpayer, too.

Andrea Jenkyns Portrait Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con)
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The Poppy Appeal raised £49.2 million in 2017. Will the Minister take this opportunity to thank the hard-working poppy sellers up and down the country, including the incredible Gale Wood at the Morley branch in my constituency?

Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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We are all incredibly grateful to the many tens of thousands of volunteers up and down the country who give so much of their time for this great cause. The Royal British Legion has been doing it for generations now, and it will certainly always have our full support in what it does and the impact that it has on service personnel and veterans’ lives.