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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when she last spoke with Nissan on the effect on their operations in the UK of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

Nissan is a critical part of the UK’s successful Automotive industry and remains a vital part of the North East’s manufacturing landscape as it has been for the past 30 years. I am in active dialogue with Nissan – most recently in a call with the company last week, and others in the Automotive sector to support investments in new technology, R&D and electrification Nissan’s decisions to produce the new Qashqai, Juke and the all electric Leaf models at its world class manufacturing facility in Sunderland are votes of confidence in the UK’s business environment.