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Shipbuilding

Commons · Question 74780 · Tabled 3 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 9 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to increase shipbuilding capacity.

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 9 Sep 2025

This Government has an ambitious shipbuilding pipeline with major naval programmes in progress at a number of UK shipyards, recent export success of the Type 26 frigate to Norway and forthcoming civil shipbuilding programmes. The National Shipbuilding Off...