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Defence in the United Kingdom

My right hon. Friend knows that many shipbuilding communities throughout the country are waiting with anticipation for the work to come on stream—it will give a lifeline to a lot of those yards—but can he give a commitment that, where workable alternatives exist in this country, those ships will be built in the UK, rather than the work being farmed out to eastern Europe, thus devastating parts of the UK shipbuilding industry, which is supportive of the Government at the moment?