Trident Submarines: Iron and Steel

(asked on 13th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department received any bid from steel companies with plants in the UK to supply plate steel for the Successor class of nuclear submarines.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 18th October 2016

The management of the steel procurement process for the Successor Programme is the responsibility of the Prime Contractor, BAE Systems. The Ministry of Defence's involvement with suppliers was limited to conducting a technical assessment during the tendering process to ensure bids met specifications.

The tendering process was progressed and concluded by the Prime Contractor, no viable UK bid was received for this part of the Successor submarine manufacture. Other stages of construction will include grades of steel manufactured by British suppliers and I encourage them to take the opportunity to bid.

Overall, 85% of BAE System's supply chain for the new submarines is based in the UK.

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