Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the dates for his last meetings with the Chief of the Defence Staff about the Royal Navy’s balance between surface and subsurface fleets.

I will await the results of the review before I discuss the outcomes with the Chief of the Defence Staff. The review will predominantly look at future threats and to what extent surface and subsurface fleets can play a role in defending against them.