Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 6 of the Independent Report to inform the UK National Shipbuilding Strategy, published 29 November 2016, and with reference to paragraphs 99 and 100 of the National Shipbuilding Strategy, published 06 September 2017, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's research on the socio-economic effects of Government funded shipbuilding in the UK.

The IPSOS Mori report undertaken in support of the National Shipbuilding Strategy was published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the gov.uk website alongside the Strategy. It is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/641541/uk-shipbuilding-prosperity-impacts-report.pdf