PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Warships: Repairs and Maintenance (5 February 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many ships of the Royal Navy surface fleet excluding its aircraft carriers were under repair or being refitted on 1 May 2016.

Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

Royal Navy ships may conduct a repair at any time, whether deployed at sea or alongside. It is therefore not possible from available records to determine the number of vessels conducting a repair on any particular day.

The number of ships (excluding aircraft carriers) that were designated as in refit on the first of each month during 2016 as follows:

Month

Number of ships in refit

January

5

February

5

March

5

April

6

May

6

June

6

July

6

August

6

September

6

October

6

November

6

December

6

Notes:

1. Full records are not available for P2000 Fast Inshore Patrol Craft.


Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
12 February 2018

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