Type 26 Frigates: Procurement

(asked on 2nd February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to his Department is of (a) the core contract, (b) capability insertion, (c) Government furnished equipment and (d) other relevant aspects of the Type 26 frigate programme.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 13th February 2024

In regard of contract values for the Batch 1 and Batch 2 Type 26 Frigates, the Type 31 Frigates, and the Batch II River-class Offshore Patrol Vessels, I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 12 December 2023 to Question 4914 and to the answer I gave on 7 February 2024 to Question 12110 to the hon. Member for East Lothian (Kenny MacAskill).

Other relevant costs include a contract worth some £70 million awarded to Thales for the provision of equipment and technical services for a Type 31 shore-based mission test and integration facility.

I am withholding the wider programme costs including the costs for capability insertion and Government Furnished Equipment for the two Frigate programmes project as its disclosure could be prejudicial to the commercial interests of our industrial partners, BAES Systems and Babcock.

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