.@DefenceHQ data published today shows 274,000 jobs were supported directly or indirectly by defence expenditure in the UK in 2024-25. (An increase of 10.5% from 248,000 in 2023-24).
32,800 are supported by expenditure on shipbuilding and ship repair.
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Navy Lookout on X: ".@DefenceHQ data published today shows 274,000 jobs were supported directly or indirectly by defence expenditure in the UK in 2024-25. (An increase of 10.5% from 248,000 in 2023-24). 32,800 are supported by expenditure on shipbuilding and ship repair. https://t.co/piRiWafVip"
It could and should be a much higher number. We still buy far too much military kit from abroad that could easily produced here with a relatively modest investment in our defence industrial base.
Shame another couple of hundred couldn't be found for crewing the ships eh?
I don't think a lot of people understand the sheer scale of foreign works currently employed in the UK shipbuilding industry BAE and babcock in Scotland employ hundreds of them mainly from the far East and Africa it's a disgrace the industry has been degraded to such a level
