Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how he intends to provide maritime surveillance capability. [128705]
Mr Dunne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence [holding answer 20 November 2012]: The UK's maritime surveillance capabilities are delivered by a wide range of platforms and assets, including ships, submarines, aircraft and space and sea-bed based capabilities, and every Royal Navy vessel at sea carries out maritime surveillance routinely and continually.