Trident

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Mai 1987.

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Photo of Mr Michael Hirst Mr Michael Hirst , Strathkelvin and Bearsden 12:00, 5 Mai 1987

Does my hon. Friend agree that a substantial part of the Trident programme is represented by a major civil engineering contract at Coulport in the west of Scotland? Will he take this opportunity to remind the House that every Opposition party is pledged to scrap that programme, with the result that thousands upon thousands of jobs in the west of Scotland would be sacrificed on the altar of their political ideology?