Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) continue to make good progress on the optimal pathway to deliver conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) What recent estimate he has made of the lifetime cost of Trident renewal. - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) I think that means the Minister does not know what the total lifetime cost of Trident replacement is - Speech Link
4: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) Does he agree that we must find a way of replacing Trident within budget, and that the worst possible - Speech Link
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Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) May) became Prime Minister in 2016, one of the first key votes in this House was on the renewal of Trident - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) at HMNB Clyde, which will ensure they are ready to receive the next generation Dreadnought class of submarines - Speech Link
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long the vanguard-class submarines have been on patrol at sea on average in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The Royal Navy has successfully maintained Operation RELENTLESS, the Continuous At Sea Deterrent, for an unbroken 55 years. We do not disclose details of the Operation, including the duration of time spent at sea, as such information could be used to undermine the security and capability of the mission and our personnel.
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Chief of the Defence Chatham House Security and Defence Conference 2024 keynote speechFound: NATO has four times as many ships and three times as many submarines as Russia.
Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Why do we have hardly any submarines that are now regularly put to sea? - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) To be political, it was again the Conservative Government who stopped building submarines, so we had - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) We would all like to see these things, but let us actually do it and have more submarines, more escorts - Speech Link
4: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) the way, I do not want the House to get excited and think I am saying that we do not need to renew Trident - Speech Link
Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of Trident renewal in the period between 2023 and 2050; and what proportion this would be of total Government spending in that period.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
As the replacement warhead programme is in its preliminary phases, it is too early to provide cost estimates for the programme. In the absence of these estimates, it is not possible to express deterrent renewal spend as a proportion of overall Government spending.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when each Vanguard class submarine has been out of service.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The Royal Navy has provided the Continuous At Sea Deterrent for an unbroken 54 years with Operation RELENTLESS. However, we do not disclose these details for operational security reasons as to do so could or would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability and security of the Armed Forces.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the Vanguard class submarines are out of service.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The Royal Navy has provided the Continuous At Sea Deterrent for an unbroken 54 years with Operation RELENTLESS. However, we do not disclose these details for operational security reasons as to do so could or would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability and security of the Armed Forces.
Jan. 26 2024
Source Page: Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA): Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023Found: of seven nuclear- powered attack submarines.