Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2016 to Question 49731, on Trident submarines, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs to be created in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the UK from the investment in the Successor submarines.

The Dreadnought submarine programme represents billions of pounds of investment in thousands of British jobs across hundreds of firms from Scotland to the South of England.

Naval Base Clyde is one of the largest employment sites in Scotland, with around 6,800 military and civilian jobs now (including contractors), increasing to around 8,200 by 2022 when the base will become the home for the all of the Royal Navy's operational submarines.

As of 1 July there were 10,220 military personnel and 3,840 Defence civilians based in Scotland.