Question follow-through · 47291
Submarines: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Submarine Dismantling Project.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 7 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
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Submarine Dismantling Project.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Submarine Dismantling Project remains on track for the demonstrator submarine, SWIFTSURE, to be fully dismantled by the end of 2026.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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