Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 13, paragraph 36 of the National Shipbuilding Strategy, whether the Master Plan for naval shipbuilding will be released into the pubic domain.

The National Shipbuilding Strategy states, on page 21 paragraph 52, that the detailed Master Plan for internal use will not be publicly released. However, we have developed a public version (see Figure 3 of the Shipbuilding Strategy) which shows our broad thinking for the future fleet.