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Fact Check: How many jobs depend on Faslane?

Fact Check October 9, 2017

Faslane is the second largest single-site employer in Scotland, after the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, with around 11,000 jobs directly and indirectly reliant on the base.

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