Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to measure is progress on the delivery of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

In my role as Shipbuilding Tsar and as chair of the Shipbuilding Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG), I oversee the work of the National Shipbuilding Office (NSO) in implementing and delivering the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSbS) Refresh. As part of its broader approach to delivering the NSbS Refresh, the NSO is developing a monitoring and evaluation framework to ensure regular monitoring of the measures of success set out in the strategy.