Submitted on Thursday 8th May 2014
Published on Friday 9th May 2014
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 9th February 2015
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Reconsideration of awarding Search and Rescue to Bristow Group.
The Bristow Group has won a 10-year contract to run the service from 2015.
The £1.6bn deal ends 70 years of search and rescue from the RAF and Royal Navy.
Bristow will replace ageing RAF and Royal Navy Sea King helicopters with modern Sikorsky S-92s and AgustaWestland 189s. If the DfT wanted to replace the SeaKing's with modern capabilities, the costs would be far less.
We should be supporting our own industry rather than fuelling another, Bristow may have newer technologies compared to the forces however, due to cuts in funding the forces cannot afford to at least upgrade their current ones. The RN/RAF do a brilliant job as it is, this may jeopardise the jobs of those who've been doing this service from the 1940's.
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