Rolls-Royce

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 November 1970.

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Photo of Mr Peter Rost Mr Peter Rost , Derbyshire South East 12:00, 11 November 1970

My right hon. Friend's statement will be most welcome to many thousands of people in and around Derby whose employment and well-being is very much at stake, but will he agree that what this country and Rolls-Royce need in the long term is a British airframe industry in order to maintain prosperity? Is it not the case that, if the airframe industry had not been run down so much in the past six years under the previous administration, Rolls-Royce would now be installing British engines in British aircraft and would be making a profit?