Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard MP's speech at ISPC 2026
What was announced
Minister Pollard highlighting the increasing importance of the Maritime industry in an era of intensifying strategic competition.
Key points, in the publisher's words
- It’s always disturbing as a politician when you see two superb speeches without any bits of paper. And then as a politician you walk to the podium with your paper and you realise that there’s the official at the back marking down if you change the word ever so slightly.
- And so, I enjoyed the speeches both from Captain Ben and also Sir Gwyn. Thank you all for being here today and in particular can I thank our Norwegian friends for co-hosting this event today.
- The UK-Norway relationship is stronger now than at any point in our collective history. We share common values of liberal democracy, pride in our steadfast support for Ukraine and a drive to modernise our armed forces so they are ready to fight the next war, not the last one.
Figures in this announcement
Each line is quoted from the original. Figures are as the publisher stated them on the day.
- “And I’m pleased to also announce that in parallel with the Atlantic Future Forum, we are signing a framework agreement with Southampton-based Ocean Infinity Solutions that opens the door to an initial £90 million investment.”
Who and where
People
- Luke Pollard (MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (Labour (Co-op))) · more news
UK bodies of power
- Ministry of Defence (UK government department) · more news
Global and regional bodies
Countries
Constituencies of the MPs named: Plymouth Sutton And Devonport.
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
- Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies · news at this level
- Level 6: National government · news at this level
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: Defence and armed forces.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/minister-for-defence-readiness-and-industry-luke-pollard-mps-speech-at-ispc-2026
- Published 2026-11-10 12:13:55 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-11-10 12:15:46 UTC from GOV.UK
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