Mr Healey will use his speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday to confirm £2.5 million is being made available for the specialist welding skills centre on the Clyde in Glasgow. The UK Government has worked with Scottish Labour and Rolls-Royce to save the £11 million Welding Development Facility. The UK Government stepped in amid Labour concerns that the SNP’s “anti-defence stance” was putting the creation of the welding skills centre in jeopardy. “Where the SNP won’t back Scottish industry, young people or our national security, Labour will step in. Defence Secretary John Healey will confirm funding for the centre in his speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday.