Aviation Sector

I thank the Chair of the Transport Committee for helping, along with my hon. Friend the Member fo...

My fellow member of the Transport Committee is absolutely right. We should bear in mind what has ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing this debate forward and for giving me the chance to ask a...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, as ever, for his contribution. He is absolutely right. Perhaps this i...

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Before I take any further interventions I will make a little more progress.

The airports ha...

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I will take some more interventions in a moment.

I would like the Government to look at the...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and neighbour for giving way. As well as asking for a greater fin...

I thank my hon. Friend for that point. As she and I know, Gatwick is the jewel in our crown in th...

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I will, of course, take an intervention from my hon. Friend—the hon. Lady who is a previous Chair...

I hope that we are also hon. Friends. The hon. Gentleman is speaking about the intervention and s...

I thank my predecessor for all the amazing work she did on the Transport Committee, as well as to...

I will make a little more progress as I have only a few minutes left, and I might then take one o...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree that premium brands are built on people...

My right hon. Friend is right. Across the House we expect the best from our premium brands if the...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his courtesy and for understanding that a great many people wish t...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to have been able to secure my first Backbench Busi...

My hon. Friend is making a crucial argument. She will know just how many jobs are under threat in...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, which I completely support, and I am going to cover that much ...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way on that point about airport operators. In my patch, I have ...

Order. It is an intervention, not a speech, and Members must refer to one another as “the hon. Me...

My hon. Friend raises a really important point, which I completely support, and it echoes the con...

I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I welcome the Under-...

I have to reduce the time limit to three minutes.

1.49 pm

General Electric Aviation Wales, in Nantgarw, near Caerphilly, it is one of the most important em...

May I start by welcoming the Minister to his post? He is a welcome addition to the Department for...

Does my right hon. Friend share my view that much of the real pain of this situation will be felt...

I absolutely agree, because this is not actually about our principal airports; it is about the re...

My right hon. Friend is making an important point about the broader sector, because across the no...

These are crucial points. If we are seriously to rebalance our economy, we cannot afford to lose ...

I have Liverpool John Lennon airport in my constituency, so I would particularly like to congratu...

Three minutes—gosh! I am glad the high-speed rail Minister, the Minister of State, Department for...

With Teesside International Airport in my constituency, aviation is obviously important to us. I ...

My hon. Friend will share my concern about the fact that Rolls-Royce in Barnoldswick is now looki...

I agree absolutely. We need to do all we can as we go through the covid-19 crisis to make sure th...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) on securing this d...

My hon. Friend is a formidable champion of aviation, particularly in West Sussex. Does he agree t...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. He is exactly right: the UK aviation indus...

The star award for using covid as an opportunity to demoralise and destroy its workforce has to g...

The hon. Lady has made an important point. Does she agree that because this appalling behaviour t...

The hon. Member’s intervention leads me nicely on to my next point. My constituent tells me that ...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman), the Chair of the Transpo...

My hon. Friend represents the nearest airport to my airport in Newquay. Does he agree that the re...

My hon. Friend takes the words straight out of my mouth. Colleagues will recall the collapse of F...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare) on securin...

One of the suggestions that the unions and others have put forward is that Her Majesty’s Governme...

The hon. Member makes a very important point. Indeed, may I put on record my thanks to Unite, GMB...

No doubt the hon. Lady will share my disappointment that the Chancellor’s promise of tailored sup...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. She shows that families will look forward to Christmas with dr...

Order.

2.26 pm

I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) for securing this debat...

The north-west aerospace cluster is the largest in the country, contributing more than £7 billion...

I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (...

I am sure that, like me, the hon. Member has heard many heartbreaking stories from constituents t...

I thank the hon. Member for raising the important issue of how we can hold companies such as Brit...

We are continually being told by companies such as British Airways that the rationale for the cur...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, particularly as I believe British Airways pointed out to...

I have said before, and I say it again in this House, that I would like the steering committee to...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, which she raised in the first debate. BA employees said ...

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Is the hon. Lady taking the intervention?

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The hon. Lady rightly said that BA has behaved very badly towards its employees and everybody agr...

Order. I call Ian Byrne.

2.37 pm

I congratulate Members from both sides of the House on securing such a vital debate.

The Ai...

Does my hon. Friend agree that that £833,000 will stick in the craw of so many decent British wor...

I fully agree with my hon. Friend. Painfully for me, Willie Walsh is a Liverpool supporter who ha...

I, more than many, welcome the new Minister to his place and wish him every success. Before I say...

Talking about going greener, does my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour know that Southampton...

Yes. Many of my constituents rely on Southampton airport for their family income, and we have bee...

I thank all those who have secured the debate, and I hope colleagues will understand my offering ...

I welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Rober...

I hope that the new chief executive officer of IAG is listening today and has heard so many diffe...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend that British Airways has behaved appallingly throughout th...

You have 309 seconds.

I will be quick. The issue relates to veterans who joined BA. The scheme that allowed them to lea...

We are moving on to the wind-ups now, and I have to say that 37 Members have not got in. More hav...

Let me, too, start by welcoming the new Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the hon. Member f...

On regional connectivity, the first airline to fall foul of covid was Flybe. Does my hon. Friend ...

I could not agree more. The Transport Secretary came to the Dispatch Box and said that he had sav...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will make some progress.

We also looked at problems faced by thousands of customers in th...

At the Prestwich aerospace cluster there are 4,000 jobs, and over 10% have already gone. Aviation...

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Order. Please reply very briefly, because you really do have to sit down at 3 o’clock.

Okay. I recognise that when looking at our more successful and dynamic European neighbours, seein...

Order. I am sorry, but we are really constrained by time.

3 pm

Before I address the debate, and with Mr Speaker’s permission, in my capacity as chair of the Co-...

May I start by congratulating the Chair of the Transport Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for...

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I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I hope the House will understand that I have a great d...

I congratulate the Minister and am pleased to see him in his place; I know that he has the experi...

Yes, I am very happy to meet the hon. Gentleman and other honourable colleagues. Indeed, I look f...

Will the Minister give way?

I am so sorry, but I am short of time; I would give way if I could.

The Government do under...

On behalf of myself and the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Abena Oppong-Asare), I thank al...

We are now going to suspend very briefly. Once both Dispatch Boxes have been sanitised and the ma...