A400m

Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 17 July 2003.

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Photo of Vincent Cable Vincent Cable Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Treasury)

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

(1) pursuant to her answer of 24 June 2003, Official Report, columns 677–78W, on A400M, if she will place in the Library the letter of intent to Rolls-Royce dated 4 May 2003;

(2) whether she has agreed the size of the grant to be provided to Rolls-Royce; and under which scheme the support will be delivered.

Photo of Jacqui Smith Jacqui Smith Minister of State (Industry and the Regions and Deputy Minister for Women), Department of Trade and Industry, Minister of State (Industry and the Regions) and Deputy Minister (Women)

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry wrote to Rolls-Royce on the 4 May 2003 regarding the engine selection for the A400M military transport aircraft. However, the content of this letter is commercially sensitive under Exemption 13—Third Party's Commercial Confidence's of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information and it cannot be placed in the Libraries of the House.

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