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Workforce growth at HMNB Devonport will be key to delivering the infrastructure required to improve submarine availability and prepare for SSN-AUKUS. Team Plymouth will play a central role in creating the local conditions to attract and maintain this larger workforce and will also be key to delivering the local defence dividend promised by the city’s Defence Growth Deal. The Government must provide timely and adequate funding for Team Plymouth to enable it to meet the workforce challenge and maximise defence-related growth. (Recommendation, Paragraph 109) 52