IAIN Wright MP, shadow minister for competitiveness, will be in Furness tomorrow to see how the area is becoming a hub for high-tech manufacturing jobs.
He will be accompanied on a tour of Barrow and Ulverston by Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock.
The first part of the shadow minister’s visit will comprise a tour of BAE Systems in Barrow tomorrow morning.
They will be given an overview of the company by senior BAE personnel before meeting representatives of the unions. The visit will later include a tour of Artful – one of the Astute-class submarines under construction in the Devonshire Dock Hall.
Mr Woodcock and his Westminster colleague will then visit Marl International, Marl Business Park, Morecambe Road, Ulverston, in the afternoon.
This meeting will be an opportunity for representatives of companies from the Ulverston advanced manufacturing cluster to speak to the shadow minister and the Furness MP. After welcomes and introductions from Mr Woodcock, the shadow minister will give company representatives an insight of the shadow business team.
He will hear about the companies’ individual business profiles – including business needs for future growth.
In attendance will be Marl International managing director Adrian Rawlinson; company marketing manager Arianna Rawlinson; Siemens general manager Phil Ashley; Forge Europa managing director Peter Barton; Oxley Group technical director Darren Cavan; GlaxoSmithKline site operations manager Phil Wilson; and Furness Enterprise industrial development manager Stuart Klosinski.
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