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1181070

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to accelerate the construction of the new Type 31 class of frigates for the Royal Navy, given the increasing workload being created by the situation in the Gulf and the imminent deployment of the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL1928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>We remain committed to ensuring the Royal Navy has the ships and capabilities required to fulfil Defence commitments now and in the future.</p><p>The first Type 31 Frigate will be in the water in 2023 and Babcock is contractually obliged to deliver all five Type 31 Frigates to the Ministry of Defence by the end of 2028.</p><p>The Prime Minister has committed to undertake the deepest review of Britain's security, defence and foreign policy. This review will examine how we strengthen and prioritise our alliances, diplomacy and development and will consider all aspects of our defence and security capabilities, including our approach to procurement and maintaining our technological edge. We are considering a number of options to increase the availability of ships during this period.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 03/03/2020 14:12:36 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1181072

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the new Type 31 class of frigate will be fitted with an anti-ship missile system.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL1930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>Flexible by design, the Type 31 frigates will be adaptable to a range of capabilities, which may include an anti-ship missile system.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 03/03/2020 14:13:00 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1146965

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their recent order for five Type 31e frigates will increase the number of frigates in the Royal Navy.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL17939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Government announced the preferred bidder for the Type 31 General Purpose Frigate competition in September 2019 and looks forward to the contract award in due course. These five ships will replace the existing five General Purpose Type 23 Frigates.</p><p>As explained in the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 and in the National Shipbuilding Strategy, we remain committed to a surface fleet of at least 19 frigates and destroyers, and the Royal Navy will continue to have the ships it requires to fulfil Defence and policy commitments. It remains our intent to grow the destroyer and frigate force by the 2030s, and the Type 31 Frigates will give us the opportunity to do this.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 08/10/2019 14:35:45 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1139590

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the action information system in the Type 31e frigates will be compatible with that in the Type 26 frigates in terms of operations room training and cross-operating of personnel.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL17237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Type 31e frigate programme is currently in its Competitive Design Phase. I am unable at this time to comment on the ship systems being offered by the bidders as to do so would be prejudicial to the commercial interests of the Ministry of Defence.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 22/07/2019 16:22:42 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1083790

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much UK steel will be used in the Type 31e frigate programme.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL14353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>It is too early to say what the steel requirement for Type 31e might be.</p><p>The Government's steel procurement pipeline is published on gov.uk, most recently on 21 January 2019, at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/steel-public-procurement</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 15/03/2019 11:34:36 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1083791

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the unit price for a Type 31e frigate remains at £250 million as originally projected.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL14354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>It remains the Ministry of Defence's intention to contract for five ships at an average price of £250 million per ship.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/03/2019 15:27:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1083432

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the role of the new Type 31e frigates to be supplied to the Royal Navy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
	uin	HL14315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the reply given by my right hon. Friend, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mark Lancaster), in the House of Commons on 4 March 2019 to the hon. Member for Portsmouth South, (Stephen Morgan) in response to Question number 226207.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 13/03/2019 15:42:22 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 4 March 2019, UIN 226207.docx title Type 31 Frigates
	tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

989326

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they anticipate placing the first order for the Type 31e frigate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
	uin	HL10720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>We plan to award a single design and build contract by the end of 2019.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/10/2018 15:17:16 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

985798

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what maintenance and logistic arrangements are being put in place, and where, for the entry of the Type 31e frigates into service in 2023.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL10604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>At this stage in the procurement process for the Type 31e programme, it is too early to discuss our plans for its maintenance, logistic and base-porting arrangements.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL10603 question first answered 24/10/2018 15:00:25 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

985025

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of why they have not received any compliant bids in the first round of bidding for the Type 31e frigate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
	uin	HL10568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>I am withholding the information requested as its release would prejudice the commercial interests of the bidders and of the Ministry of Defence.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/10/2018 14:29:50 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie