Ahead of the exchanges in the Commons, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “The government’s ongoing failure to produce the DIP is a threat to British jobs and skills, as well as a serious threat to national security now and for generations to come.”<\/p>\n
Graham said “money must be spent in the UK” when the DIP is finally agreed and “anything else would be a betrayal”.<\/p>\n
She added: “The government has a duty to ensure that contracts including a new tranche of Typhoon fast jets, the Skynet satellite and the A400M transport plane are signed off and production lines in Britain are rolling as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n
ADS, a trade association for the UK’s aerospace, defence, security, and space industries, urged ministers to get on with the DIP.<\/p>\n
Chief executive Kevin Craven described the 12-month gap between the SDR and the DIP as “pretty abysmal”.<\/p>\n
He told the BBC: “We’re in a world where all of the threat assessments say that 2027 could be the point at which we come under credible military threats.<\/p>\n
“Whether we do or we don’t, I’m not being alarmist about it, we need to be ready for that and we’re not, simplistically.”<\/p>\n
Craven noted that ADS members, particularly smaller firms, are warning about the threats to their long-term future should things not start progressing.<\/p>\n
He said: “We have seen firms either moving out of the sector or changing direction and it will continue, no question about that.”<\/p>\n
Clancy, from Prospect and also a member of the Defence Industrial Joint Council, said: “Every month of delay is a month where fewer jobs and training places are created, and where industry is unable to invest in the infrastructure we will need to ensure sovereign capability.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the exchanges in the Commons, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “The government’s ongoing failure to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}