I would like to thank the LGA for this opportunity to address a wide range of councillors and local authority chief executives across England and Wales in my capacity as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Shipbuilding Office (NSO).
My organisation was established in September 2021 to oversee delivery of the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSbS) Refresh, published in March 2022, and to provide strategic oversight of all national and local government shipbuilding activity, driving forward transformative change in the sector.
As CEO, I am responsible for ensuring strategic alignment of publicly funded vessel procurements with national policy, on behalf of the Government’s Shipbuilding Tsar.
My team works closely with project and procurement teams across government to optimise their vessel requirements, commercial plans, and market engagement, to best deliver on the objectives outlined in the NSbS Refresh.
These objectives include:
- creating opportunities for UK suppliers, where possible
- creating and supporting UK jobs
- exceeding our legal requirement on low carbon vessels and technology to reduce UK fleet emissions and encourage green growth.
I therefore have a keen interest in any new vessel procurement or vessel support programmes under your authority, and my Shipbuilding Pipeline team would be delighted to hear from you.
We stand ready to assist however we can, whether that be through industrial capability insights, or advising on incorporating green technology and UK areas of excellence.
I would welcome the opportunity to work closely with you to ensure the success of your programme, while supporting the whole UK shipbuilding enterprise, and look forward to delivering our policy objectives together.
Contact details for my pipeline team are below, should you have any questions or require any programme support.
For more information, please contact Dan Egglestone, Pipeline Policy Lead, at [email protected], and/or Helen Ross, Pipeline Policy Adviser, at [email protected]. See the refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy