{"id":76440,"date":"2016-11-24T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=daebaf5c81884fb1aa9ecb4ffff71639"},"modified":"2016-11-24T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:10:12","slug":"news-story-minister-for-defence-procurement-visits-faslane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76440","title":{"rendered":"News story: Minister for Defence Procurement visits Faslane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In her first visit to the base, which is one of Scotland\u2019s largest employment sites, Mrs Baldwin met with personnel from the Royal Navy\u2019s submarine flotilla as well as the many employees and contractors who support the base.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Scotland has long been central to the success of our Armed Forces and the investment we are making at Faslane is crucial to maintaining that and will make a huge contribution to the local economy, bringing vital job security to our people and their families.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As one of the primary hubs for the Armed Forces in Scotland, HMNB Clyde is currently benefitting from over \u00a3500 million of investment which is being spent on the ship lift, sea walls, jetties and other major projects to ensure Faslane continues as a world leading naval base.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister was given a tour of one of the Vanguard class submarines which carry the UK\u2019s ballistic nuclear missile system \u2013 the ultimate guarantee of our nation\u2019s safety. She also saw the waterfront engineering support facilities including the giant ship lift, used to lift the 16,000 tonne submarines out of the water when maintenance work is needed.<\/p>\n<p>In October Defence Secretary Michael Fallon started work on Vanguard\u2019s successor the \u00a31.3 billion Dreadnought programme when he carried out the first \u2018steel cut\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin today visited Scotland\u2019s military personnel at Her Majesty\u2019s Naval Base (HNMB) Clyde which will be home to 8200 jobs and all the Royal Navy\u2019s submarines by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}