UK TRAIN MANUFACTURING

Early day motion 962, tabled 19 February 2008 by Bob Laxton (Labour). Signed by 69 members.

That this House welcomes the Government's plans to introduce an extra 1,300 carriages onto the rail network to ease overcrowding and to procure a new generation of high-speed trains for the East Coast and Great Western Main Lines; considers that these orders represent an opportunity to revitalise UK train manufacturing; believes that the high-skilled, high-value workforce employed in the domestic train manufacturing and wider engineering sector are best placed to build and maintain the new stock; and therefore calls on the Government to promote a public procurement policy which safeguards existing UK capacity, skills and jobs in the train manufacturing and associated industries.

Signatures by party: Labour 56, Liberal Democrat 6, Conservative 3, DUP 1, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.