National Shipbuilding Office: Finance

(asked on 12th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual budget is for the National Shipbuilding Office.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 17th January 2023

The National Shipbuilding Office (NSO) is an independent office of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). It currently employs 25 people and one industry secondee. The annual budget of the NSO for financial year 2021-22 is £2,534,175 which is drawn from the MOD, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, Cabinet Office, Department for Transport, Department for Education and Department for International Trade.

The NSO was established to provide strategic oversight of all of the Government's interests in shipbuilding and drive transformative change within the sector. To achieve this, the NSO engages with colleagues across Government and industry on all procurement programmes listed in the 30 Year Cross-Government Shipbuilding Pipeline in the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSbS) Refresh to ensure the principles of the strategy are being considered throughout the process. The NSO also plays a key role in driving the policies and interventions outlined in the strategy, for example the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions and the UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce, in order to promote growth across the entire UK shipbuilding sector. More information on the roles and responsibilities of the NSO can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/national-shipbuilding-office.

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