Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the names are of all the joint military exercises with other countries which Royal Navy vessels participated in during 2017.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The names of the joint military exercises in which Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships participated during 2017, up to 6 December are given below.
Exercise Cougar Voyage | Exercise Artemis Trident |
Exercise Sea Khanjar | Exercise Baltops |
Exercise Azraq Serpent | Exercise Trade Winds 17 |
Exercise Unified Trident | Exercise Dynamic Mongoose |
Exercise Dynamic Guard | Exercise Breeze |
Exercise Aman | Exercise Grampus |
Exercise Khunjar Hadd | Exercise Saxon Warrior |
Exercise East Dolphin | Exercise Joint Warrior 172 |
Exercise Joint Warrior 171 | Exercise Brilliant Mariner |
Exercise Alligator Dagger | Exercise Dogu Akdeniz |
Exercise Samurai Blade | Exercise Niriis |
Exercise Konkan | Exercise Nusret |
It is UK policy that we do not comment on matters relating to submarine activity or operations as this would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.
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Asked by: John Grogan (Labour - Keighley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial contributions the Government has made to the US administration to date to support the D5 Life Extension programme; and what future such payments the Government plans to make.
Answered by Guto Bebb
The total spend by the UK on the D5 Life Extension Programme up to the end of financial year 2016-17 was £157.6 million.
As stated in the recent update to Parliament on the Dreadnought Programme, approval was given in 2017 to extend the planned life of the Trident II D5 missile electronic packages at a total project cost of around £350 million.