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Submarines

Volume 481: debated on Monday 20 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate his Department has made of the number of attack submarines in service in the Royal Navy in each of the next 10 years. (227870)

On present plans, which are regularly reviewed, the number of Attack submarines in each year is as follows:

Number of vessels

2009

8

2010

8

2011

7

2012

7

2013

7

2014

7

2015

7

2016

7

2017

7

2018

7

From 2011 onwards there will be occasions when we briefly have eight submarines in service, as the Astute class gradually replaces the Swiftsures and Trafalgars, but the number will usually be seven.