ASTUTE CLASS SUBMARINES

17th January 2017

Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the construction period was for (a) HMS Astute, (b) HMS Ambush and (c) HMS Artful.

Harriett Baldwin, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Procurement: All aspects of the construction period of a submarine are encompassed within the build period, measured from the start of manufacture to operational handover to the Royal Navy.

Using this metric the build time for HMS Astute was 170 months, HMS Ambush was 149 months, and HMS Artful was 137 months.

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