Submarines: Decommissioning

(asked on 21st June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the first Royal Navy submarine to have been fully recycled under the Submarine Dismantling Project.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 28th June 2017

Under current planning assumptions HMS Swiftsure, as the demonstrator submarine, will allow the Submarine Dismantling Project to define and refine initial dismantling and recycling processes by Quarter one of 2022 and inform future contractual arrangements. The Ministry of Defence's Disposal Services Authority will agree with the successful contractor the optimum arrangement for removal of the submarine for conventional recycling, including time-scales.

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