Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 5 February 2019, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Henley.

Nissan in Sunderland

Lords statement on Nissan.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 795 cc1434-1445
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord Henley | 795 cc1434-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the leave of the House I shall now repeat a Statement made by my right honourable ...; Lord McNicol of West Kilbride | 795 cc1436-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made in the other place and must decla...; Lord Fox | 795 cc1437-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. Just over a year ago Secretary of...; Lord Henley | 795 c1439 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before I answer any of the questions put to me by noble Lords, may I correct myself? I ...; 795 c1439 (Link to this contribution)
Oh!; Lord Henley | 795 cc1439-1440 (Link to this contribution)
It is a smallish error of 90%. I have at least corrected it.
I welcome the comments of the ...; Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 795 c1440 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as the owner of a diesel-powered Mini that was exempt from the co...; 795 c1440 (Link to this contribution)
Oh!; Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 795 c1440 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, it does. The EU was responsible. Under Gordon Brown’s Government we were encouraged to buy d...; Lord Henley | 795 c1440 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to my noble friend for making those points and making them so well. I also dec...; Bishop of Lincoln | 795 c1440 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have been asked by my right reverend friend the Bishop of Durham, who is detained in ...; Lord Henley | 795 c1441 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right reverend Prelate for asking that question and for underlining the obvi...; Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 795 c1441 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does the Minister not recognise that the real story here is that the Government—perhaps...; Lord Henley | 795 c1441 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, for paying tribute to the late Lady Thatcher and fo...; Baroness Quin | 795 c1441 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I echo the concerns raised by the right reverend Prelate, but in its statement Nissan s...; Lord Henley | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, again, I understand why the noble Baroness talks about the uncertainty in Sunderland an...; Baroness Randerson | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Government recently removed and reduced some of the grants for those buying hybrid ...; Lord Henley | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will not discuss specific grants for any specific type of vehicle. I have made it qui...; Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords—; Lord Birt | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords—; Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
No, it is not the turn of the Cross-Benches. We have just heard the noble Lord, Lord Hannay.
<...; Lord Henley | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am not going to allocate blame, particularly because, as I mentioned earlier, my wife...; Lord Birt | 795 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
Like many of your Lordships, I have substantial and continuing experience of the real economy. Th...; Lord Henley | 795 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I accept that a no-deal exit would be difficult. The point we are making is that we do ...; Lord Lennie | 795 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, other car makers in this country—Honda, Toyota and BMW—have pulled out from bringing mo...; Lord Henley | 795 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
Things have changed. It is not solely to do with that. As other noble Lords have said, the whole ...; Baroness Kramer | 795 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a Minister in the coalition, I had the privilege of visiting the Nissan plant in Sun...; Lord Henley | 795 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, decisions on where to invest are very difficult. The noble Baroness is quite right to s...; Lord Tugendhat | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does my noble friend agree that, in an uncertain situation, one thing is certain—that i...; Lord Henley | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
My noble friend is absolutely right about the recent trade deal agreed between the EU and Japan, ...; Lord Lea of Crondall | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Minister confirm that he is saying that the rules of origin question does not arise in th...; Lord Henley | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
I am not sure that I quite followed the noble Lord.; Lord Lea of Crondall | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
Can the noble Lord confirm that the origin rules problem does not arise in the present deal propo...; Lord Henley | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
The origin rules problem is very detailed and complicated in terms of the percentage of any car t...; Baroness Ludford | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, can the Minister inform us how many Brexiteer parliamentarians have been CEOs of major ...; Lord Henley | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
I am not sure that that question really deserves a response.; 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
Oh!; Lord Sterling of Plaistow | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in April last year the percentage of people buying diesel cars was 70.2%; it is now pre...; Lord Henley | 795 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful to my noble friend for underlining what has happened to diesel sales, which is...; Lord Wigley | 795 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Minister in the other House made it clear that he was reinviting Nissan to submit a...; Lord Henley | 795 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is open to any company to apply for any funds that are available, as my right honour...; Lord Scriven | 795 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as more decisions about where to make new models arise, is not the fear that car makers...; Lord Henley | 795 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
I think that car makers will continue to look at the investments that they have already made and ...
Subjects: Cars Government assistance Job creation Manufacturing industries Training Research Sunderland Trade competitiveness Nissan UK trade with EU Brexit
Contains statistics: Yes
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