Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the document entitled Fact sheet: Trilateral Australia-UK-US Partnership on nuclear-powered submarines, updated on 13 March 2023, which elements of the SSN-AUKUS will be built (a) at the Barrow Shipyard and (b) elsewhere in the UK.

All the UK's SSN-AUKUS hulls will be built at the Barrow shipyard, and all the nuclear reactors for the UK and Australian SSN-AUKUS submarines will be made in the UK by Rolls Royce in Derby. This arrangement will create thousands of jobs, particularly in Barrow-in-Furness - the home of British submarine building.