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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 43836, tabled on 6 May 2020

Question

Margaret Beckett
Labour
Derby South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with representatives of Rolls Royce on measures to support the manufacturing sector to manage the financial effect of the covid-19 outbreak.

Answer

Nadhim Zahawi
Conservative
Stratford-on-Avon
Commons

Answered on

12 May 2020

The Government is committed to supporting companies through the COVID-19 crisis and has worked with many businesses across the economy to understand how best to do so, including Rolls-Royce.

The Government has been in close discussions with Rolls-Royce on the various business support schemes available to the business and its suppliers. Through the Aerospace Growth Partnership , the company has also fed into the Government’s dialogue with the wider aerospace sector about business support.

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