Would Soviet competition push Britain toward higher-pressure boilers?

Would a Soviet battleship program make Britain invest more heavily in high-pressure boilers?

Perhaps it would add urgency, but Britain already had the technology and chose its wartime standard mainly to simplify training and rapid fleet expansion.

Britain already possessed higher-pressure boiler designs, so additional Soviet competition was not needed to create the technology. In 1937 the Royal Navy standardized machinery for a rapidly expanding war fleet, prioritizing common training and quick mobilization over waiting for the newest plant to mature. The United States standardized roughly two years later, after higher-pressure technology had advanced and with a smaller retraining burden imposed by its existing fleet. Funding can accelerate development, but it does not remove the operational cost of introducing another machinery family across a large service. Fleet standardization dates can matter as much as laboratory capability.