In order to be competitive, we have to retain the skills that it looks like we are going to lose, but things are going in the wrong direction. Has the Minister seen the estimates from Unite that suggest that 25% of our defence expenditure by 2020 will be in the United States alone? Are we not missing a defence industrial strategy that will stem that, so that we are paying people for skilled jobs, not to be unemployed?
BAE Systems Military Air & Information Sites: Job Losses
Proceeding contribution from
Christian Matheson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 10 October 2017.
It occurred during Urgent question on BAE Systems Military Air & Information Sites: Job Losses.
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