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Defence Aviation Repair Agency, St Athan

EDM number 87 in 2004-05, proposed by Bill Wiggin on 23/11/2004.

That this House notes with concern the Ministry of Defence's preferred option of relocating almost the entire deep repair and maintenance of its fast jets in-house at RAF bases in England and away from the world-beating Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA) at St Athan, where this work is successfully undertaken by a highly trained workforce and where a publicly funded ú77 million hangar, purpose-built to repair these jets, is approaching completion; is further concerned that the review of air logistics, on which this option is based, ignores the strategic role given to DARA by Her Majesty's Government as recently as April 2001 to provide a competitive alternative to commercial sources of repair work, and makes no distinction between uniformed RAF personnel operating under a military code and civilians working in a competitive commercial environment; recognises that there is no military or economic case for this work to be undertaken by the RAF; believes that, if implemented, this option will inevitably result in a return to a costly and inefficient dependence on a single monopoly source of depth support from a private contractor as a direct consequence of asking our dedicated servicemen and women to try and emulate factory workers, and calls on the Government to reconsider this option, in the interests of front line capability, the British taxpayer and the future of the South Wales aviation industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bill Wiggin23/11/2004LeominsterConservativeProposed
Elfyn Llwyd24/11/2004Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Crispin Blunt24/11/2004ReigateConservativeSigned
Peter Luff24/11/2004Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Bob Spink25/11/2004Castle PointConservativeSigned
Andrew Selous29/11/2004South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Oliver Heald29/11/2004North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis29/11/2004New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Howard Flight29/11/2004Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
John Randall30/11/2004UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Julian Brazier30/11/2004CanterburyConservativeSigned
David Amess30/11/2004Southend WestConservativeSigned
Andrew Hunter01/12/2004BasingstokeIndependent ConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson01/12/2004UpminsterConservativeSigned
Caroline Spelman01/12/2004MeridenConservativeSigned
Cheryl Gillan02/12/2004Chesham & AmershamConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant08/12/2004LichfieldConservativeSigned
Hugo Swire08/12/2004East DevonConservativeSigned
Anne McIntosh09/12/2004Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
John Gummer09/12/2004Suffolk CoastalConservativeSigned
Patrick Mercer13/12/2004NewarkConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson14/12/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Eric Pickles16/12/2004Brentwood & OngarConservativeSigned
Derek Conway20/12/2004Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Marion Roe21/12/2004BroxbourneConservativeSigned
John Horam21/12/2004OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Julie Kirkbride21/12/2004BromsgroveConservativeSigned
Oliver Letwin21/12/2004West DorsetConservativeSigned
David Maclean21/12/2004Penrith & The BorderConservativeSigned
George Osborne21/12/2004TattonConservativeSigned
Nigel Evans21/12/2004Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Peter Viggers21/12/2004GosportConservativeSigned
Alistair Burt10/01/2005North East BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Edward Garnier17/01/2005HarboroughConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond17/01/2005Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Charles Hendry25/01/2005WealdenConservativeSigned
Andrew Rosindell21/02/2005RomfordConservativeSigned
Jonathan Sayeed23/02/2005Mid BedfordshireIndependentSigned
Peter Duncan01/03/2005Galloway & Upper NithsdaleConservativeSigned
James Paice08/03/2005South East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Stephen O'Brien14/03/2005EddisburyConservativeSigned
John Wilkinson14/03/2005Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Gregory Barker17/03/2005Bexhill & BattleConservativeSigned
Nigel Waterson04/04/2005EastbourneConservativeSigned

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