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Rosyth Royal Dockyard

EDM number 1236 in 1992-93, proposed by Henry McLeish on 25/01/1993.

That this House notes that in a letter from the Prime Minister to the honourable Member for Dunfermline East, dated 6th January 1993, on the handling of the nuclear refit competition, the Prime Minister made no mention of Rosyth's second bid but specifically compared RD57 with Devonport Management Ltd's greatly cheaper docks modernisation scheme, even though senior Ministry of Defence officials had assured Rosyth that Scheme IV would be accepted and fully evaluated in the competition after it was formally submitted on 10th December 1992; is concerned about leaks from recommendations issued by the Secretary of State for Defence's office to senior cabinet colleagues in early January that Rosyth's Scheme IV bid had been dismissed as insubstantial and insufficiently developed, and criticised because Rosyth were unable to file a firm, fixed price early enough; notes that Babcock Thorn state they were not told of such reservations or given the opportunity to submit additional information; is alarmed that similar leaks claim the Ministry of Defence has recommended Rosyth lose all nuclear refitting contracts in favour of Devonport and take instead a five-year package of guaranteed surface ship refitting that will secure only around 1,500 of the dockyard's 4,200 jobs and a deeply insecure future, whilst Devonport will be guaranteed 30 years of nuclear refitting work; and requests an early explanation from the Secretary of Defence.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Henry McLeish25/01/1993Central FifeProposed
Ernie Ross25/01/1993Dundee WestSigned
Rachel Squire25/01/1993Dunfermline WestSigned
John Maxton25/01/1993Glasgow, CathcartSigned
Lewis Moonie25/01/1993KirkcaldySigned
Jimmy Dunnachie25/01/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Tony Banks26/01/1993Newham North WestSigned
Janet Anderson26/01/1993Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Maria Fyfe26/01/1993Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
John Evans26/01/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Jim Dowd26/01/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Ian Davidson26/01/1993Glasgow, GovanSigned
Michael Connarty26/01/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Eric Clarke26/01/1993MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale26/01/1993MansfieldSigned
John McAllion26/01/1993Dundee EastSigned
Peter Kilfoyle26/01/1993Liverpool, WaltonSigned
Adam Ingram26/01/1993East KilbrideSigned
Eric Illsley26/01/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Robert Hughes26/01/1993Aberdeen NorthSigned
John Home Robertson26/01/1993East LothianSigned
Gordon Prentice26/01/1993PendleSigned
Peter Pike26/01/1993BurnleySigned
William McKelvey26/01/1993Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Norman Godman27/01/1993Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Andrew Faulds27/01/1993Warley EastSigned
Alistair Darling27/01/1993Edinburgh CentralSigned
John Cummings27/01/1993EasingtonSigned
David Marshall27/01/1993Glasgow, ShettlestonSigned
Martin Redmond27/01/1993Don ValleySigned
Robert Parry27/01/1993Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Menzies Campbell27/01/1993Fife North EastSigned
Terry Lewis28/01/1993WorsleySigned
Ian McCartney28/01/1993MakerfieldSigned
Jack Thompson28/01/1993WansbeckSigned
Keith Vaz28/01/1993Leicester EastSigned
Mike Watson29/01/1993Glasgow CentralSigned
Bridget Prentice29/01/1993Lewisham EastSigned
Paul Flynn03/02/1993Newport WestSigned
Michael Clapham04/02/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jo Richardson05/02/1993BarkingSigned
Martyn Jones09/02/1993Clwyd South WestSigned
Norman Hogg15/02/1993Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
Roland Boyes15/02/1993Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Tommy Graham25/02/1993Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours04/03/1993WorkingtonSigned
Greg Pope31/03/1993HyndburnSigned

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