Trident Submarines
(asked on 20th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's planning assumptions are for formulating the in-service date for the first of the Vanguard-successor submarines.
This question was answered on 5th September 2016
As set out in Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, we expect the first Successor submarine to enter service in the early 2030s. I am witholding details of the planning assumptions for the purpose of safeguarding national security.