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I have just come across this written question and answer on whether the Prime Contractor has to be a UK company. The link to the word document is the answer to the question in the House of Lords. It does not actually answer Mr Jones' question. I wonder what the government is trying to hide.
Kevan Jones Labour, North Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2021 to Question 44204 on Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement, whether the prime contractor for the Fleet Solid Support Ship contract must be a UK-based company.
Jeremy Quin The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer given by my noble friend, the Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence (Baroness Goldie), on 13 July 2021 to Question HL1745 in the House of Lords.
HL1745 - Fleet Solid Support Ships Procurement (docx, 54.9KB)
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Here is the transcript of the FSS Question
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham) (Lab)
10. If he will define the term “UK content” within the fleet solid support ship contract. (903503)
The Minister for Defence Procurement
(Jeremy Quin)
The final contract for the manufacture of the fleet solid support ships will be awarded to a UK business, either solely or as part of a consortium. We have been clear that a significant proportion of the build work will be carried out in the UK.
Mr Jones
In spring, the MOD invited international companies to collaborate with UK firms to build the fleet solid support ship contract. Earlier this year, it awarded a £5 million design contract for the project. I have tried in numerous questions to the Minister to get the answers to these questions, and I have to say to him that his answers should be getting creative writing awards for the ways in which they avoid answering questions. May I ask him a direct question: who are the design contracts with—are they with the consortium or with the individual companies? Secondly, will he confirm that the prime contractor who wins this contract will be a UK company?
Jeremy Quin
We are engaged with the consortium as a whole. I would have to check for the right hon. Gentleman on the finer points of where exactly the contract lies within that consortium, but it is the consortium that is being appointed to conduct the design work and it is the consortium that will be expected to do that work. It is then the consortium that we will be turning to for the next stage. As he knows, four awards have been made and, from memory, they are for £5 million each. They go to each in that consortium, all of which have a UK component, and they will be presenting not only their design but their views on the next stage and the build programme. I will come back on the precise point he makes, as it is a fair question.
Philip Dunne
(Ludlow) (Con)
It is a bit rich of Labour Members to be nit-picking on this contract, given that the competition that they were calling for, whereby shipyards in the UK were to be required to build these ships, is precisely what the Minister has engineered. Will he confirm to the House that following last week’s outstanding Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in docklands, where, as he has mentioned, there were further contracts for British shipbuilders, and following the announcement of the establishment of the National Shipbuilding Office and AUKUS, the opportunities for defence shipbuilding in this country have never been greater?
Jeremy Quin
I was so flattered to be awarded the creative writing award by the right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) that I was perhaps too kind. There is an awful lot that is great going on in British shipbuilding at the moment. He has been calling for the design contracts to be awarded, and they have been awarded; we are getting on with the fleet solid support ships. As my right hon. Friend the M
I have just been listening to the Defence Minister not answer questions around FSS. He managed not to define what significant means in relation to local content despite that being the question. He also did not confirm who the Prime contractor will be. In particular he did not confirm if the Prime Contractor had to be a UK company. This last question is important as while the tender will be with the consortium the contract has to be with a lead company. It is worrying that the Minister did not know the answer to that question as it is his job to know.