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 PollardThis 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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