Shipbuilding: Contracts

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts his Department awarded to industry for shipbuilding since 2010; and what the value was of each contract.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 12th December 2023

The table below shows shipbuilding contracts awarded by the Ministry of Defence since 2010, with the contract values detailed at Contract Award.

Programme

Contract Value

Company/Shipyard Date of Award

Fleet Solid Support (FSS) ships

£1.6bn (subject to inflation) for 3 ships

Navantia UK on behalf of Team Resolute (BMT, Harland & Wolff & Navantia) - 2023

Type 26 Frigates

£3.7bn Batch 1 for 3 ships £4.2bn Batch 2 for 5 ships

BAE Systems 2017 and 2022

Type 31 Frigates

Contract total over £1.2bn. £250m average production cost per ship. Design and Build contract for 5 ships

Babcock 2019

River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels Batch 2

Total Contract value £635m including support costs. Manufacture and support contract for 5 ships, built in two batches.

BAE Systems Contracts awarded in 2014 and 2016

Tide Class - Military Afloat Reach & Sustainability (MARS) Tankers

Build contract for £452m for 4 ships

DSME 2012

Since 2015 the Ministry of Defence has also brought into service the two Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, the culmination of a £6 billion programme of UK shipbuilding, and the Tide Class of Royal Fleet Auxiliaries providing around £150 million of work to UK shipyards and other suppliers.

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