Trident Submarines

(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 31st October 2016

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.

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