HMS Queen Elizabeth: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the HMS Queen Elizabeth returned to Portsmouth on 14 February 2020 due to a fault.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 26th February 2020

HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH returned to HM Naval Base Portsmouth on 14 February after successfully completing her operational activities.

Between January and December 2019, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH was scheduled for 24 weeks of maintenance; this included her planned dry-docking period in Rosyth. She underwent no additional days of maintenance while alongside. Maintenance work on individual ship systems takes place during both these scheduled periods alongside and operational deployments. Information on maintenance conducted while deployed is not collated centrally.

We do not disclose the materiel states of individual ships for operational security reasons, as this would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.

Reticulating Splines