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Douglas Alexander welcomes defence skills investment boost

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  • The  Colleges in the East and West of Scotland will upskill young people, enabling them to benefit from good, well-paid jobs in Scotland’s growing defence sector.
  • Scotland already benefits from over £2 billion a year in MoD spending, which supports more than 12,000 jobs.

    • Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander today welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to match fund the UK Government’s £10 commitment to create two Defence Technical Excellence Colleges (DTECs) in Scotland, as part of a £50 million Scottish Defence Growth Deal.

    The DTECs will help provide young people with new specialist pathways into high-skilled, well-paid careers in defence engineering, advanced manufacturing and maritime technology are coming to Scotland.

    The colleges will be located to support Scotland’s defence clusters in the East and West of the country and will benefit from the engineering and innovation centres previously announced as part of the Scottish Defence Growth Deal.

    Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander said:

    In March we announced a £10 million commitment to develop two Defence Technical Excellence Colleges in Scotland. I’m pleased that the Scottish Government has now agreed to match fund these colleges to give our young people the skills they need to secure high-skilled, well-paid careers in Scotland’s defence sector in the years to come.

    Scotland is a defence industrial powerhouse and is already benefiting from increased UK Government investment as we deliver a defence dividend for Scotland, creating new skilled jobs, new training places and new opportunities for communities while keeping us and our allies secure. It is crucial that we continue to develop the skilled workforce needed to support this growing sector.

    Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard MP said:

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