Royal Fleet Auxiliary
(asked on 28th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) duration and (b) value of vessel maintenance contracts were signed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
The table below sets out the total annual expenditure, by financial year, of vessel maintenance/refits including unscheduled repair costs to Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels between 2010 and 2022.
Financial Year | Repair costs (including unscheduled repairs) (£million) | Refit cost (£million) |
2010-11 | 1.829 | 38.717 |
2011-12 | 1.283 | 18.853 |
2012-13 | 1.770 | 75.459 |
2013-14 | 2.055 | 80.820 |
2014-15 | 12.994 | 88.887 |
2015-16 | 7.617 | 59.941 |
2016-17 | 8.704 | 24.229 |
2017-18 | 8.350 | 81.379 |
2018-19 | 4.830 | 49.609 |
2019-20 | 7.543 | 64.570 |
2020-21 | 9.760 | 60.513 |
2021-22 | 11.924 | 68.602 |
A breakdown of repair costs into those that were scheduled and unscheduled could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary managed vessels are presently maintained under the Future In-Service Support (FISS) agreement. These contracts were signed in 2018, have a duration of 10 years, are worth approximately £1.1 billion and are expected to deliver around £115 million of savings. Prior to the signature of the FISS agreement, RFA managed vessels were managed under a set of five In-Service Support contracts. These contracts were awarded in 2008 and renewed in 2012 for a further five-year period at an additional cost of £349 million.