CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

DEFENCE – BOWMAN - 19 July 2001

DEFENCE – BOWMAN - 19 July 2001

Dr Julian Lewis: The hon. Members for Reading, East (Jane Griffiths) and for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) have emphasised the fact that Thales already employs 14,500 people in many constituencies all over the United Kingdom. The Secretary of State [Geoff Hoon] understandably stresses the new jobs to be created, but what about those to be lost, such as at the former Racal factory, now Thales, in my constituency? How many people does CDC currently employ in the United Kingdom?