Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2016 to Question 49732, on Trident submarines: iron and steel, what proportion of the BAE supply chain in the UK is based in Scotland.
It is too early in the Dreadnought submarine programme to be able to provide an estimate of the proportion of the supply chain that will be based in Scotland.
The programme represents billions of pounds of investment in thousands of British jobs across hundreds of firms from Scotland to the South of England.