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HANSARDDraft Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Nothing in this order, which purely transfers our procurement regulations, does that. We can look at a whole raft of matters once we have properly left. We will obviously consider…11 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence Spending in ScotlandI am coming to my last paragraph, but I can see that the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene, so I will give way.06 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence Spending in ScotlandIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Chris Stephens) on securing the debate. I do not know whether…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence Spending in ScotlandMy hon. Friend makes a very important point, which my hon. Friend the Member for Angus (Kirstene Hair), who is sitting next to him, raised at Scottish questions just a few weeks…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence Spending in ScotlandI was going to come to that, but I will touch on it now. The Type 31e is subject to an open competition at the moment, as the hon. Gentleman knows, so I cannot go into too many…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence Spending in ScotlandI will happily answer that question. The whole point of the national shipbuilding strategy is to make our shipyards as competitive as possible. For far too long, our shipyards…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDefence SectorMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise this important issue. The Ministry of Defence is reviewing the Scottish Government’s plans for next year’s tax, and we await the final…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorI am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. We have secured 20 years’ worth of work for the Clyde shipyards. We would be hard-pressed to find any industry in the UK…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorThe Ministry of Defence spent nearly £1.6 billion with Scottish businesses in 2016-17, supporting some 10,500 jobs. This demonstrates the vital contribution of the workforce in…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorIt may have escaped the hon. Lady’s attention but I am not the Secretary of State, and I have visited many of the shipyards around this country and in Scotland. I have seen for…16 Jan 2019HANSARDMoray Growth DealFirst, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work he is doing on this deal; I know that he takes a keen interest in it, as does the MOD in terms of surplus land being released…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorI have made this point consistently, as the hon. Lady will know: the national shipbuilding strategy defines warships as frigates, destroyers and aircraft carriers. The primary…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorI admire the hon. Gentleman’s ingenious way of bringing in defence industry issues. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is constantly fighting for Scotland around the…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorAs I said, we are trying to build in a good shipbuilding programme so that shipyards around the country know what the Ministry of Defence’s requirements are going to be for the…16 Jan 2019HANSARDMoray Growth DealWe have been making good progress since the Government’s intention to negotiate a Moray deal was announced in September 2018. The partners there have submitted a number of project…16 Jan 2019HANSARDDefence SectorCatastrophic.16 Jan 2019HANSARDIllegal Drone Use: AirportsAs I was saying, the protection of airports is in fact an issue for those airports. I know that the Department for Transport is working with airfields across the country to ensure…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIllegal Drone Use: AirportsI was pleased to go to Heathrow myself just last week—[Hon. Members: “Gatwick.”] I know, but I personally went to Heathrow last week. We responded to the request that we received…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIllegal Drone Use: AirportsI obviously cannot go into the details of the capability that we have—I do not think that that would be sensible for the security of our country—but, having visited the system…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIllegal Drone Use: AirportsWe take this matter incredibly seriously, and it is important to get things absolutely right because there are all sorts of implications for the aspects of security that we will…14 Jan 2019