Recommendation 84

Witnesses emphasised the importance of a reliable drumbeat of work to help them recruit and retain staff. City of Glasgow College called for “a clearer demand signal to trigger both the public and private sector investment needed to expand the shipbuilding workforce.”138 Hans Pung of RAND Europe agreed that “the more time [employers] have to understand what the future programme looks like, the more their opportunity should be to grow [their workforce] productively.”139