Newport Wafer Fab Debate

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Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Newport Wafer Fab

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Fleet Solid Support Ships
Tuesday 22nd November 2022

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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The noble Lord will know that I cannot go into specific details of this case, but I am delighted to say that we have an extensive range of companies in the UK manufacturing and producing in this area. South Wales is one of the notable success stories with the catapult acceleration plans that we have there.

Lord Patel Portrait Lord Patel (CB)
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My Lords, with the sale of a major semiconductor company of the United Kingdom and with no gigafactory for the manufacture of batteries, what effect will this have on our ability to manufacture electric vehicles?

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