The project has taken 20 years to get to this stage and was first announced in 2006 by the then Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The plan sets out £63.6bn over the next four years for what is called the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. The prime minister will use his visit to Barrow-in-Furness to stress how defence spending can have economic benefits for the country. "British money, spent on British workers, British firms and British skills, in the places that were written off for 40 years." For Reform UK, Danny Kruger dismissed Burnham's announcement as a "rehashed spending plan" that did "nothing to address the crisis in the UK's nuclear programme".