PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Destroyers and Frigates: Deployment (20 December 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many frigates and destroyers were in deployment overseas at some point in December of each year since 2000.
Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)
Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)
Answer
From the records that are available, we have identified the number of Royal Navy Frigates and Destroyers that were assigned to overseas deployments during December each year from 2000 - 2017 as listed below.
Year | The number of Frigates and Destroyers |
2000 | 10 |
2001 | 9 |
2002 | 5 |
2003 | 7 |
2004 | 9 |
2005 | 5 |
2006 | 10 |
2007 | 9 |
2008 | 7 |
2009 | 7 |
2010 | 5 |
2011 | 4 |
2012 | 6 |
2013 | 4 |
2014 | 6 |
2015 | 5 |
2016 | 3 |
2017 | 0 |
Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
12 January 2018
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