Written question asked by Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 16 December 2020, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 4 January 2021. It was answered by Lord Callanan (Conservative) on Monday, 4 January 2021 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Rolls-Royce: Barnoldswick

Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the announcement by Rolls-Royce that it plans to move aero engine manufacturing overseas, what action they plan to take to maintain advanced manufacturing at Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick.

Answer: The Government understands that Rolls-Royce do not intend to close the site at Barnoldswick but will continue production of fan blades for some of their engines and retain a fan blade product development and technical support centre. Rolls-Royce has also announced proposals to bring back work into the UK. For example, it is proposing to withdraw from its Singapore Assembly & Test facility for widebody engines, consolidating all widebody engine Assembly & Test capability in the UK. It has also closed a site in the US consolidating any future workload in the UK.

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