Brendan O’Hara – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Brendan O’Hara on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a British firm made a bid to supply steel for the Trident replacement.

Harriett Baldwin

No viable UK bid was received by the Prime Contractor, BAE Systems, to supply the specialised steel required for this part of the Successor submarine manufacture.

Other stages of construction will include grades of steel manufactured by British suppliers and we expect them to take the opportunity to bid.

The Successor programme represents billions of pounds of investment in thousands of British jobs across hundreds of companies from Scotland to the South East.

85% of BAE System’s supply chain for the new submarines is based in the UK.