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Monday, 01 March, 2010 
Copy of letter sent to the Evening Mail today. Dear Sir, I refer to the letter by Colin Thomson published in the Evening mail on 27th February 2010.
When I asked the question to Mr. Woodcock on when he expected the build of the Trident Successor boats to commence I had hoped that he would actually provide the date himself, and it was the fact he didn’t that I found most interesting. The original timetable was always seen as challenging and this was clearly stated in the NAO Report: ‘The UK Future Nuclear Deterrent Capability’ published in November 2008. It said that the design of the submarines needed to pass their ‘Initial Main Gate’ in September 2009 in order to meet the very tight build timetable. This deadline was missed and the project is therefore now delayed by however long it takes to get the designs through this gate.
In addition, the Astute programme has been delayed by a total of 4.5 years (9 months per boat for boats 2-7). This was published on 16th December 2009 in the ‘NAO Report: ‘Defence Major Projects HC 85I- 2009/10’.
The honest facts are that because the Astute and the Trident Successor programmes are both already delayed by this Government, it is nothing more than untruthful scare mongering to claim the Tories will delay it by five years.
Honesty and facts are what matter, not spin, deceit and silly grandstanding by the Labour party who claim we will delay, whilst ignoring the fact that it is they who are already delaying these projects.
Yours faithfully
John Gough
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