The owners of the Rosyth dockyard have walked back from suggestions the defence company would move their operations to England if Scotland became independent.
John Howie, Babcock’s head of corporate affairs, told MPs in the Commons that the company which employs over 2.500 skilled workers building Royal Navy warships on the Clyde and the Rosyth yard had made massive investment in Scotland with the intention of staying.
He told the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee that moving out of an independent Scotland, as David Lockwood the chief executive of defence giant, had threatened to last week was a “hypothetical situation“.
