To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has allocated to the Clyde Shipyard Task Force in light of the announcement by BAE Systems that it will make 265 Clyde shipyard workers redundant.

The Redundancy Management sub-group of the Clyde Shipyards Task Force is ready to go into action again as soon as necessary. The organisations represented on the redundancy sub-group, particularly JobCentre Plus, Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and Glasgow City Council, already have access to a considerable amount of training and retraining funds and a range of training programmes will be made available as appropriate to any workers made redundant by BAE Systems.