Submarines: Decommissioning

Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) age and (b) proposed date of decommissioning is of each of the Trafalgar Class submarines. (162372)

The current age and the planned out of service dates, which are kept under regular review, for each of the Trafalgar Class submarines are as follows:

Vessel	Age	Out of service date
HMS Trafalgar	24	2009
HMS Turbulent	23	2011
HMS Tireless	22	2013
HMS Torbay	20	2015
HMS Trenchant	18	2017
HMS Talent	17	2019
HMS Triumph	16	2022

Volume 467: debated on Monday 12 November 2007