Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September to Question 48233 on Nuclear Powered Vessels: Shipbuilding, if he will place a copy of the Independent Project Authority’s report on the Core Production Capability programme in the House of Commons Library.

There are no plans to publish the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s assurance report on the Core Production Capability (CPC) programme. The report contains commercially sensitive information which the Department must protect. Disclosing the report would also compromise the effectiveness and integrity of the independent assurance process and jeopardise successful future delivery.

Following Departmental approval, the CPC Accounting Officer Assessment will be made publicly available in the coming months.