In his foreword to the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh, the Defence Secretary says the UK Government “will give industry a much clearer demand signal about what we are trying to achieve with our procurement programmes” and that for the first time the 70 Professor Trevor Taylor, RUSI (DIS0033) Defence in Scotland: military shipbuilding 21 UK Government would release a 30-year pipeline of all Government vessel procurements.71 However, the Government subsequently clarified, in response to...

In his foreword to the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh, the Defence Secretary says the UK Government “will give industry a much clearer demand signal about what we are trying to achieve with our procurement programmes” and that for the first time the 70 Professor Trevor Taylor, RUSI (DIS0033) Defence in Scotland: military shipbuilding 21 UK Government would release a 30-year pipeline of all Government vessel procurements.71 However, the Government subsequently clarified, in response to concerns raised by the Defence Select Committee about the surety of the pipeline, that this did not mean work would be guaranteed throughout the 30-year Type: conclusion | Number: 44 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: The MOD fully recognises the importance of maintaining a regular drumbeat of orders across the Shipbuilding industry. The NSbS is clear that we do not want a return to the “boom and bust” cycles of historic Naval demand, but to provide a more sustainable demand s