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Mr. Colin Shepherd
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the first Trident missile submarine to be effectively in service.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
It is not our practice to make public the exact date upon which Royal Navy warships become operational, but I can tell my hon. Friend that Trident remains on course to enter service from the mid–1990s onwards.