NEW NISSAN CAR MODELS FOR WEARSIDE

Early day motion 998, tabled 10 November 2005 by Fraser Kemp (Labour). Signed by 20 members.

That this House congratulates the Nissan car company on its decision to build the new Note model and the compact Qashqai car at its Washington plant; further congratulates the workforce on being the most productive car plant in Europe for seven years consecutively and for winning the right to build the new model in the face of stiff internal competition; notes that the Nissan car plant in Washington is the biggest car plant in the United Kingdom with a production capacity of more than 300,000 vehicles a year employing 4,100 people and has just announced a further 200 jobs will be created; further notes that sales of Almera and Primera cars in Russia manufactured in Washington were up 61 per cent. in September, the eighth consecutive month of growth in demand; and further congratulates Nissan for selling more than 1.8 million cars in the first six months of its financial year, up 15 per cent. on last year.

Signatures by party: Labour 16, Conservative 2, DUP 2.