The trip coincided with the announcement of a major £8.4 billion investment in the next stage of the UK's nuclear deterrent submarine programme. Mr Streeting said: "The feat of engineering that sits behind our new Dreadnought Class nuclear submarine is just extraordinary. The funding will support tens of thousands of jobs across the country, including thousands in Cumbria, while helping deliver an estimated 22,000 apprenticeships by 2035 across the UK’s Defence Nuclear Enterprise. £5.9 billion of the contract has been awarded to BAE Systems which will allow work to continue on the submarine HMS Dreadnought, due to enter service in the early 2030s. "We can be proud of what's taking place in Barrow," Mr Streeting added.