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61012

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date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to ensure that specialised manufacturing and engineering equipment located at the BAE shipyard, Portsmouth, will be made available to potential new users of the shipyard.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	199846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is in discussion with BAE Systems over the feasibility of leaving specialised plant and machinery on the site when shipbuilding in Portsmouth ceases later this year. These discussions are continuing but no decisions have been taken regarding what equipment might be available to a potential new user of the site.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:24:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61014

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of proposals to utilise the current BAE shipyard in Portsmouth subsequent to its planned closure.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	199845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) have been appointed as the Ministry of Defence's marketing agents for the facilities being vacated by BAE Systems' shipbuilding operation. <br><br>LSH have received 19 expressions of interest which they are following up with site visits and/or provision of further information. This phase of the campaign is expected to run until the end of June 2014, when all of the expressions of interest will be fully assessed to determine whether any of them would be an appropriate and compatible future user for the site.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:25:21 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61011

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth is planned to close.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	199841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>BAE Systems is expected to complete a phased return of its Portsmouth shipbuilding facilities to the Ministry of Defence by the end of this year. It will, however, retain one office building to accommodate around 250 personnel already engaged on support to the Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme in Portsmouth.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:26:02 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61010

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the capacity of English, Welsh and Northern Ireland shipyards to build surface warships following the closure of the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	199842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>As part of the wider maritime negotiations with the Ministry of Defence in 2013, BAE Systems took the decision to focus its shipbuilding activities on the Clyde in Scotland. This decision has secured a sustainable future for the UK shipbuilding industry. <br><br>There are a number of commercial yards outside Scotland that could be considered as potential alternatives; however, no assessment of the viability of these shipyards as a potential focus for complex warship building has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 16/06/2014 16:57:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham