Andy Burnham has announced an £8.4 billion investment for nuclear submarines to get the new HMS Dreadnought through its sea trials and ready for service by the 2030s. HMS Dreadnought is the first of four new nuclear submarines. “British money, spent on British workers, British firms and British skills, in the places that were written off for 40 years. The wider UK Defence Nuclear Enterprise is thought to support around 47,000 jobs, including 9,000 in Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire, 8,000 at Devonport naval base in Plymouth, and 13,500 at Barrow in Cumbria. On the Dreadnought Class submarine programme, £5.9 billion of the £8.4 billion will go to BAE Systems, with £2.5 billion for the wider supply chain.