Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who has been consulted in drawing up the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
Sir John Parker, the Independent Chair of the National Shipbuilding Strategy, has had bilateral meetings with a significant number of key Government officials and Ministers, as well as with a broad range of maritime industry leaders and the Trades Unions (Confederation of Shipbuilding Engineering Unions, Unite and GMB).