Recommendation 48

Representatives from the shipbuilding industry told us that having sight of upcoming shipbuilding projects over the coming decades was helpful, but that it was less clear how this translated into a drumbeat of work for shipyards. Ian Waddell of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions told us: My frustration with this is that all the pieces of the jigsaw are on the table in front of us, and it would not take too much to connect them to make a proper picture. We have the 30-year pipeline of work, which we have been campaigning for, for a long time. Having that visibility of all Government- owned or operated vessels is a big step forward. […] The missing link is to take that pipeline of work and turn it into a drumbeat of work for UK yards.82