Business question from Peter Viggers (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 November 2006. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.
Business of the House
The Ministry of Defence is carrying out a study of the naval bases at Devonport, Portsmouth and the Clyde, with a view to rationalisation, which is of course another word for cuts and closures. Is the Leader of the House aware that that is a matter of great strategic importance and local concern, because some 17,000 jobs depend directly on Portsmouth naval yard? The killer fact is that most naval families have made their homes in the Gosport, Portsmouth and south Hampshire area, and any basing of ships away from that area would cause immense domestic difficulty and, possibly, loss of personnel from the Navy. May we have an urgent debate in Government time on the subject?
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- 451 c465-6
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- 2005-06
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Navy Repairs and maintenance Warships Portsmouth Dockyard
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