Recommendation 90

The National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh implicitly recognises that the design and building of warships is significantly more complex than for many other vessels, and includes warships as a discrete category when listing types of shipbuilding undertaken in the UK.149 It does not acknowledge as explicitly that the warship industry demands specific skills and knowledge that other areas of shipbuilding do not.150 The UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce does not have a specific objective to support the development of the skills needed by the warship industry in particular, although warships are part of its remit.151