Parliament to legislate to stop export of Queen Jewel industries.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Keep Crown Jewels. Prevent global companies from removing critical industrial processes to offshore locations with the consequent loss of skills and manufacturing capabilities. This should apply especially with examples like that of Rolls-Royce and wide-chord fan blade production at Barnoldswick.

The loss of skills built up over generations will relegate our nation to second-class status and see Britain becoming incapable of producing advanced technical products critical to the economic life-blood and defence of the nation.

Barnoldswick was the birthplace of the Whittle jet engine (during WW2) and was where the world beating RB211 was developed. In 1971, the then Government stepped in to save the company.

Parliament and Government should do the same now and prevent future ruin.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand that you are concerned about companies that operate in the UK from moving their operations abroad, but it's not clear what you want the Government to do about this. Operational decisions by individual businesses are a matter for those businesses, not the Government or House of Commons.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to nationalise certain industries, which would meant the UK Government was responsible for deciding how these businesses operated. We could also accept a petition calling on the Government to implement changes that could incentivise businesses to keep operations in the UK, if that is what you want to happen.

Timeline

28 Aug 2020	Petition opened for signatures
4 Sep 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Sep 2020

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