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Responding to the news that AirAsia X, the long haul affiliate of the AirAsia Group, has placed a firm order with Airbus for 25 more A330-300s Business Secretary Vince Cable said:

皇冠体育app growth of air travel across Asia represents an important opportunity for Britain鈥檚 world leading aerospace industry and one of our most successful companies - Airbus - are seizing it.

皇冠体育app UK manufactures some of the most complex parts of these planes and this new order will safeguard highly skilled manufacturing jobs in the company and its suppliers based all around the UK.

皇冠体育app government鈥檚 industrial strategy is giving business the confidence to invest - creating more high skilled, long term jobs in the UK. We鈥檙e working together with the aerospace industry to deliver a long term plan, backed by 拢2 billion joint investment, which will cement the global position of British aerospace and build a stronger economy here in the UK.

Notes for editors

1. 皇冠体育app government鈥檚 economic policy objective is to achieve 鈥榮trong, sustainable and balanced growth that is more evenly shared across the country and between industries鈥�. It set 4 ambitions in the 鈥楶lan for Growth鈥�, published at Budget 2011:

• to create the most competitive tax system in the G20
• to make the UK the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a business
• to encourage investment and exports as a route to a more balanced economy
• to create a more educated workforce that is the most flexible in Europe

Work is underway across government to achieve these ambitions, including progress on more than 250 measures as part of the Growth Review. Developing an Industrial Strategy gives new impetus to this work by providing businesses, investors and the public with more clarity about the long-term direction in which the government wants the economy to travel.