Maritime 2050 Strategy Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Maritime 2050 Strategy

Lord Tunnicliffe Excerpts
Wednesday 13th March 2019

(5 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Sugg Portrait Baroness Sugg
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My Lords, I believe that a global competition is running on that, but a British consortium is bidding. As I said earlier, we published the National Shipbuilding Strategy in 2017 which will help transform naval and commercial shipbuilding and the related procurement process. It details a new and competitive approach to the delivery of shipbuilding in this country.

Lord Tunnicliffe Portrait Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab)
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My Lords, there seem to be more than 100 recommendations in the report, along with 143 references to the Government. Just how much resource is the Department for Transport going to put into this project?

Baroness Sugg Portrait Baroness Sugg
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My Lords, the noble Lord is right to highlight the many recommendations in the strategy. It contains commitments on how we are going to take action across the seven themes addressed in the strategy. Our priority is to ensure that the recommendations are implemented, with a focus on the next five years. I referred earlier to the publishing of road maps which will set out the plans, milestones and timing for the implementation of the recommendations. We have resources in place to deliver the strategy and of course we are also working closely with the industry to help deliver it. In terms of future funding, we are putting together a bid for the upcoming spending review which reflects our ambitions and the commitments made in Maritime 2050.