Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) frigates, (b) destroyers and (c) offshore patrol vessels have been based in British territorial waters around the Falkland Islands in each year since 2010.

In each year since 2010 the Royal Navy has had vessels permanently based in British territorial waters around the Falkland Islands as follows:

2010: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2011: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2012: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2013: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2014: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2015: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2016: 2 (HMS CLYDE / HMS ENTERPRISE)

2017: 2 (HMS ENTERPRISE / HMS CLYDE)

2018: 1 (HMS CLYDE)

2019: 2 (HMS CLYDE / HMS SCOTT)

2020: 2 (HMS SCOTT / HMS FORTH)

2021: 1 (HMS FORTH)

2022: 1 (HMS FORTH)

2023: 2 (HMS FORTH / HMS MEDWAY)

HMS CLYDE, HMS FORTH and HMS MEDWAY are offshore patrol vessels while HMS ENTERPRISE and HMS SCOTT are Survey vessels.

Destroyers and frigates have visited Falklands territorial waters from time to time on temporary deployments and HMS PROTECTOR has spent a portion of every year since 2012 in the Falklands area, except for 2020 when she was undergoing refit in the UK.