10 & 11: The NSO is a strategic organisation, with a mandate to oversee all of the Government’s shipbuilding interests. The NSO works with Departments to optimise their shipbuilding requirements, the approach to delivery, and procurement to best deliver on the UK’s NSbS. It also works with policy teams across Government to address the enablers to overall competitiveness, including skills development and research and development funding. The NSO is gathering the required data to monitor and assure the delivery of the Refresh. The NSO reports to the Secretary of State for Defence, who in his role as Shipbuilding Tsar has the ability to hold other Ministers to account in support of the delivery of the NSbS. The NSO is suitably empowered to provide strategic oversight of all Government activity across the shipbuilding enterprise and is committed to demonstrating accountability and value publicly where possible. This includes the publication of the NSO Corporate Plan (2022–25) on the GOV.uk website, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/ government/groups/national-shipbuilding-office#nso-corporate-plan