The Upholder procurement process actually predates my awareness of the situation.
I can tell you how we are looking at procurement for submarines. We have two things about procuring submarines. One is that we left a big gap between procuring the last of our nuclear bomber fleet and the attack submarines. The result is that it cost us a fortune. We really learned.... Employment at the yard went from 17,000 to 3,000 and when we tried to start building Astute submarines, we found there were lots of difficulties because of skill shortages.
The second thing is that when we look to the current generation of submarines that we're building, which is the new Dreadnought class of nuclear weapon submarines, we're doing that from the beginning with an alliance between the one company that can build them and the government, the navy and the procurement authorities. It's called the submarine delivery alliance and they are working together. They have a generous budget, you might say. It's a significant sum of money. They report annually on the progress being made.
It's another of these areas where we know we can't have a competition for who can build a nuclear submarine, so what we can do is get the.... The parties know the importance of it, even down to the workforce.
That's how we're doing submarines currently.