Greg Hands corrected a written answer on Harland and Wolff: Export Credit Guarantees

23 April 2024 · Commons written answer · Department for Business and Trade

Mr Kevan Jones (Labour, North Durham) asked written question 20908 on 12 April 2024. Greg Hands answered on 17 April 2024 for the Department for Business and Trade, and Greg Hands corrected the answer on 23 April 2024. The corrected text no longer gives the figure €200 million. Altogether 64 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 12549 on Harland and Wolff: Export Credit Guarantees, what progress her Department has made on negotiations with Harland & Wolff in relation to compliance with applicable subsidy control rules.

Original and corrected answer

Struck through: original only. Bold: correction only.

Original	Corrected
UK Export ~~Finance’s (UKEF’s) support for export transactions is conditional~~ on the inclusion of UK goods and services, with a general requirement that there should be at least 20% UK content relative to the value of its support. In this instance, UKEF support has already secured over €200 million of UK content into this project.	For reasons of commercial sensitivity, UK Export Finance does not comment on ongoing commercial discussions.

The question and answer on the Parliament website.

Receipt

Read from	https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1700135?expandMember=true
Date read	15 October 2026
SHA-256	`178b7b3475146030fb185079c0ae33873ee256630b07d21cab07048e49ddc763`