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>However, the government has decided on an equity investment // Presumably a choice to invest in a private company would go through parliamentary debate, or ha

• pjc50 6y ago
  Good luck with that, this government is allergic to accountability. There are three references in Hansard: https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=oneweb&partial=False https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=oneweb&parti... - previous reference to investing £18m in March 2019 (Chris Skidmore, under Theresa May, mentions ESA; before the "cut all ties to Europe" moment) - same page https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-19/debates/E3FCCEE9-CB5F-4D1A-A2E4-581F129AFE40/UKSpaceIndustry?highlight=oneweb#contribution-141ADEEB-3169-4E6A-AF13-2ADFEF1A2104 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-19/debates/E3F... references £92m for a "domestic alternative to Galileo", not specifically linked to oneweb - Vicky Ford mentions them in the context of "my local company Teledyne e2v is working in Leeds, where it is making the highly engineered filters, switches and converters that are critical technology for the OneWeb group of satellites" https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-15/debates/634CCF88-39CE-429A-9850-FCFD5D386376/SpaceIndustryBill(Lords)?highlight=oneweb#contribution-C13BC628-85F4-4E36-9F87-2356B5521AA2 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-15/debates/634... - brief namecheck from Ed Vaizey I suspect the actual "tender" process will be resistant to FOIA under grounds of "commercial confidentiality".