Question follow-through · 47089
Submarines: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to announce next steps for the Submarine Dismantling Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to announce next steps for the Submarine Dismantling Programme.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The demonstrator submarine, SWIFTSURE, remains on track to be fully dismantled by the end of 2026. There are six further defueled Pressurised Water Reactor 1 (PWR1) submarines awaiting dismantling in Rosyth. Further announcements about dismantling the rem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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