Written Evidence Jun. 16 2023
Inquiry: The ArcticFound: People’s Liberation Army have also stressed the Arctic’s strategic military value as a haven for submarines
Apr. 06 2023
Source Page: Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA): Corporate plan financial years 2022 to 2025Found: International partnershipsDelivery of Strategic Weapons Systems, Trident programme coordination and
Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) accompanied Prime Minister Albanese to Barrow-in-Furness, where the next generation of AUKUS nuclear submarines - Speech Link
2: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) I welcome the Australian Government’s decision to design their submarines on the SSN-AUKUS model, and - Speech Link
3: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) Building complicated machines such as submarines has the benefit of a long and broad supply chain. - Speech Link
4: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) Britain has been at this game—nuclear submarines—for 70 years, and it is not something that one commits - Speech Link
5: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) What recent estimate his Department has made of the (a) timescale and (b) cost of the renewal of Trident - Speech Link
Sep. 10 2024
Source Page: The Minister for Housing appearance on The Sunday Show on 05/11/23: FOI ReviewFound: the annual cost of maintaining the UK’s existing nuclear deterrent, made up of four Vanguard class submarines
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sum from the contingency fund set aside to support the Dreadnought programme had been spent at the most recent date for which data are available.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my predecessor (Alex Chalk) on 22 March 2023 to Question 168002 to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey).
Report Jul. 21 2023
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)Found: , a frigate acting as a Towed Array Patrol ship operates from Faslane in order to protect Trident-equipped
Mentions:
1: None Currently, with the support of the United States, we have a fleet of five Astute-class submarines, with - Speech Link
2: None The United States has also signalled her intention to provide Virginia-class attack submarines to the - Speech Link
3: Lord Lee of Trafford (LDEM - Life peer) yesterday’s Times from Rear Admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy and of the Trident - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Some £2 billion was announced last year to support the Dreadnought class of submarines. - Speech Link
5: Lord Mountevans (CB - Excepted Hereditary) How will it affect the design of the new AUKUS submarines? - Speech Link
Written Evidence Jun. 13 2023
Inquiry: Armed Forces ReadinessFound: Limited force mass is also an issue, particularly concerning submarines, helicopters and the Royal
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where he plans to store the first Vanguard-class submarine awaiting decommissioning; and in what timescale.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Plans for the storage of the Vanguard Class submarines when they begin to leave service from the early 2030s are currently under review.
Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) We voted in the Lobby together against the renewal of Trident submarines. - Speech Link