Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans further to develop the National Shipbuilding Strategy to include commercial as well as naval shipbuilding opportunities in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

The shipbuilding industry is leading the Maritime Enterprise Working Group with support of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Ministry of Defence to develop an in-depth understanding of the opportunity for the wider UK supply chain in the domestic and international markets in both commercial and naval.