Rolls-Royce (Redundancies) Debate
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Sara Britcliffe
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Rolls-Royce (Redundancies)
Sara Britcliffe Excerpts(3 years, 10 months ago)
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Sara Britcliffe (Hyndburn) (Con)
Over 200 job losses are proposed at Rolls-Royce in Barnoldswick. Rolls-Royce is a jewel in the crown of manufacturing in east Lancashire, and it is important to everyone, not least my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Andrew Stephenson), who has worked extremely hard on this. Does the Minister agree that supporting the small modular reactors programme would help protect jobs at Rolls-Royce?
Nadhim Zahawi
I thank my hon. Friend for her question. I was going to come to small modular reactors later on. Supporting that programme will mean that Rolls-Royce will have another product line which could become a world beater in a market that we estimate to be worth about £300 billion a year.