VA TECH PEEBLES TRANSFORMERS (LEITH)

Early day motion 1568, tabled 21 July 2004 by Mark Lazarowicz (Labour/Co-operative). Signed by 46 members.

That this House expresses its concern at the announcement by VA Tech Peebles Transformers Ltd that it is considering the closure of its plant at Leith with a consequential loss of almost 250 jobs; notes that the plant at Leith is a new state-of-the-art facility with highly skilled and specialist employees; believes that the loss of this plant, which has successfully designed and built the world's largest power transformer units with customers in USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and the Middle East, would be a bitter blow to the manufacturing industry in Edinburgh, Scotland and the UK as a whole; urges the Austrian multi-national which is the parent company of VA Tech not to close the plant at Leith; welcomes the campaign by Amicus to retain the plant; and urges the UK Government, the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh City Council, and Scottish Enterprise to back the efforts to ensure the retention of this important manufacturing facility in this country.

Signatures by party: Labour 41, Labour/Co-operative 2, DUP 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Scottish National Party 1.