Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 22 June 2021.
I am very grateful to the Financial Secretary for his response. He heard the Chairman of the Treasury Committee, Mel Stride, mention the tourism and travel sectors, and I encourage him to look on them favourably, but from my perspective, aerospace remains the No. 1 private employer in my constituency and across Northern Ireland. It employs more than 6,500 people. Last year was a difficult year for aerospace and still it turned over £1.4 billion. It has high-end and high-level manufacturing skills that we cannot lose. I hope the sector will feature in the plans that are brought forward.