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Car Manufacturing

Does my hon. Friend agree that part of the difficulty for the industry's long-term future in the UK is that, owing to foreign ownership, we have been chasing markets that are, by and large, declining? As far as I am aware, only two superminis are built in the UK—the Mini and Nissan Micra, the latter of which is about six years old. We have been receiving foreign investment in models and market segments that are declining owing to concerns about climate change. We need the Government to pressure foreign car manufacturers to build more superminis and smaller, less environmentally-damaging models, in the UK, because that is where the market is going and where the future is for the car industry.