The Secretary of State will be aware that there are concerns among those in industry that their intellectual property may not be protected. Given that there is a very high degree of competition between the United States and the United Kingdom, the admission of a US company into the inner workings of the British Ministry of Defence across a wide range of areas would not be the same as the co-operation on the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, where the United States and the United Kingdom are completely in agreement.
Defence Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Gerald Howarth
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 July 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Defence Reform Bill.
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