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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Submarines: Decommissioning (8 December 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy submarines are due to be scrapped; and for how long those submarines have been decommissioned.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

There are 27 submarines due to be dismantled as part of the Submarine Dismantling Programme. The oldest submarine was retired from service in 1980. 19 have been decommissioned and a further eight submarines that are still in service will also be in scope.


Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
13 December 2016

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