Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to (a) the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 195698 on Nuclear Submarines: Decommissioning and (b) the NAO report entitled Investigation into submarine defueling and dismantling, published on 3 April 2019, for what reasons the Submarine Dismantling Project’s original target date for completing the dismantling work on Swiftsure differ in those documents.

The Department confirmed to the Public Accounts Committee on 1 May 2019 that the estimated completion date to fully dismantle the demonstrator submarine, Swiftsure, is 2026.

The programme remains on schedule to meet this commitment.