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Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (5 May 1987)

Mr David Maclean: asked the Secretary of State for Defence what is the value of contracts already placed in the Trident programme with British firms.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Trident (5 May 1987)

Mr David Maclean: I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. As 62 per cent. of jobs on the Trident programme will be in firms in the United Kingdom, can he estimate how many tens of thousands of jobs would be destroyed and how devastating would be the effect in Cumbria if the Liberal and Labour party policies of one-sided disarmament took effect and Trident were cancelled?

Oral Answers to Questions — Employment: Cumbria and the Northern Region (31 Mar 1987)

Mr David Maclean: ...the United Kingdom— as a result of former Budgets. Will he reflect on the disastrous consequences for jobs in Cumbria if our main industries are closed down— I refer to Sellafield and Trident at Barrow and Furness—and if agriculture is rated for tax as the Labour and Liberal parties propose?

Debate on the Address: First Day (12 Nov 1986)

Mr David Maclean: ..., magnanimous and suicidal gesture? We were told that if we took cruise the Russians would never negotiate. We took cruise, western Europe has taken Pershing, we have modernised Polaris by accepting Trident—and the Russians have come to the negotiating table with the largest ever offer on arms reduction. The tragedy is that in the next 12 months, when we are on the verge of securing...