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Debate between Philip Dunne and Michael Ellis
Monday 20th October 2014

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Philip Dunne Portrait Mr Dunne
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As my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary told the House in answer to an earlier question, the contract to award the Scout armoured vehicle is the largest single contract that has been placed under this Government since 2010, or to the British Army for 30 years. The Ministry’s job is to get the best deal with the prime contractor, and it is down to the prime contractor to secure the best supply chain.

Michael Ellis Portrait Michael Ellis (Northampton North) (Con)
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There is an unsatisfactory anomaly whereby war widows can keep their pensions if they remarried before 1973 or after 2005, but not in between. That is an unhappy and unsatisfactory anomaly for war widows, so will the Secretary of State or the Minister look at it?

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