Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 71342

Shipbuilding: North East

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 7 September 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

Conservative — Stockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential strategic merits of increasing shipbuilding capacity in the north of England.

Answer

Luke Pollard
This Government has an ambitious shipbuilding pipeline with major naval programmes in progress at a number of UK shipyards, recent export success of the Type 26 frigate to Norway and a number of forthcoming civil shipbuilding programmes. The National Ship...
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