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HANSARDNissan in SunderlandFirst, the company sells most of its output into the rest of the European Union so will need to maintain its ability to meet the requirements to which my hon. Friend refers.…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI made it clear that the £61 million was approved by the independent process, with which the right hon. Gentleman is very familiar. To date, there has been a payment of £2.6…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI do agree with my right hon. Friend that the House needs to come together and enter into a deal that can provide that confidence. When it comes to the customs arrangements, as…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandNo. The industry has been clear that the deal that has been negotiated meets its requirements to continue what has been a very successful investment programme. One of the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI am a north-easterner myself by birth and upbringing. We should celebrate the resurgence of industry across the north-east in recent years, including the expansion of Nissan. The…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandIn my statement I mentioned the Faraday challenge, which we established as part of the industrial strategy. Not only is there a quarter of a billion pounds to fund the latest…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for what he said, and I can certainly refute that. He knows that I have given particular attention to the expansion of prospects for the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; as the House knows, there has been a slowdown in the market for new diesels. People are hanging on to their existing ones and values have…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandEveryone in this House has a responsibility: we need to protect the jobs of our constituents and to give them opportunities for the future. One way or another that involves this…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI say to my right hon. Friend that no deal is fully acknowledged—certainly by me and the industry—as being ruinous for our prospects, but in order to avoid no deal, we need to…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe views of businesses up and down the country—not of all of them, but of the majority of them—are clear that having a transitional period is something that they regard as…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI do agree with my hon. Friend. She knows the industry well and she knows that, time and again, the leaders—the chief executives—of the players, big and small, in the industry…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI think that I have been clear that the investment that is being made into the Qashqai is an expanded investment, which will have opportunities for the supply chain, but that the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe company gave its reason, and it said that it was owing to business conditions. One was the accelerating take-up of low-emission vehicles for which it has been one of the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandI do not quite understand the hon. Lady’s point, but I think that she might be referring to the fact that we should not regard the period until 28 March as the time available to…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe hon. Gentleman will know that there is no one in this House more familiar with the importance of the car industry across the country and in the north-east. Within 10 days of…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe hon. Gentleman should, in fairness, reflect—as I have done—on the renewed commitment that Nissan has made to Sunderland by putting more cash into the plant than was originally…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe hon. Gentleman will know that the automotive sector deal, in which Nissan was an important partner, has a significant programme of investment in the skills and capabilities of…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandTo protect those jobs in the longer term, we need to secure our ability to trade without tariffs and without impediment across the whole of the rest of Europe. As I have stated…04 Feb 2019HANSARDNissan in SunderlandThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the importance of tariff-free trade. The European Union has agreed, and put into operation last week, a free trade agreement with…04 Feb 2019