Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the article entitled Airbus jobs are secure, says BAE, published by the Daily Telegraph on 8 April 2006, whether his Department holds information on what the legal protections referred to in that article are.

We remain closely engaged with Airbus on a range of activities to ensure that the UK’s public interests are properly protected. Given the commercially sensitive nature of the discussions, it would not be appropriate for me to comment further on the details of any legal protections agreed.