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<p>The £3.7 billion Ministry of Defence contract for the first three Type 26 frigates,
to be followed by five more, and the £635 million investment in the Offshore Patrol
Vessel programme have guaranteed the shipbuilding industry on the Clyde work for 20
years and safeguarded 1,700 shipbuilding jobs in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally,
the second of the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers is currently being fitted
out in Rosyth, and the National Shipbuilding Strategy has set out our commitment to
a competition to design and build Type 31e frigates here in the UK<strong>. </strong></p>
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