Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2016 to Question 45999, how many of the 34 days in which all six Daring-class Type 45 Destroyers were berthed together at HMNB Portsmouth were consecutive.

There were four separate periods during July and August 2016 when all six Daring Class Type 45 Destroyers were alongside together at Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth for consecutive days. These were for two days, two and a half days, four days, and twenty five and a half days.