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Michael Fallon overrules Royal Navy head over Scotland?s shipyards | Politics | The Guardian
Michael Fallon overrules Royal Navy head over Scotland’s shipyards
Defence secretary makes clear new frigate will be built on the Clyde after First Sea Lord suggests contract could go abroad
Wednesday
12 November 2014 18.22 EST
The Defence secretary,
Michael Fallon, has moved to defuse a damaging row over thousands of Scottish defence jobs by contradicting the head of the Royal Navy, Sir George Zambellas.
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But an MoD spokeswoman said
the ministry’s policy was fixed and had not changed. “As the Defence Secretary has made very clear,
complex UK warships are only built in UK shipyards and we have no plans to change this,” she said.
“And while this contract has not yet been awarded,
we have also been clear that from 2015 the Clyde will be the UK’s only shipyard that builds complex warships.”
Asked if Fallon was slapping Zambellas down, she added: “
The defence secretary has reiterated the established government position on that one. You can draw your own conclusions on what that means but this is our position as a government department.”