United Kingdom Security Vetting 2025-10-23
2025-10-23
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Q1
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Context
Concerns raised by constituents in Barrow who lost job offers due to significant delays in receiving security clearances from UKSV, impacting the ability to deliver nuclear submarines.
The Minister will know how proud we in Barrow are to be building our world-class nuclear submarines. Working in the shipyard requires security clearance, which is provided by UKSV. However, some of my constituents have lost job offers due to the significant delays in receiving clearance. That has a severe impact on those individuals as well as on our ability to deliver the submarines that defend the country. Can the Minister assure me that steps are being taken to speed up the process?
My hon. Friend will know better than anyone that Barrow makes a critical contribution to national security. I can assure her that UKSV continues to undertake a programme of work to improve the efficiency of the vetting process and that further work is ongoing to digitise and improve the automation of processes. If she has any further concerns, I would be happy to discuss them with her.
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Assessment & feedback
The Minister did not provide specific timelines or concrete actions to address the delays mentioned by the questioner.
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