Results 1-9 of 9 for trident speaker:Quentin Davies
- Written Answers — Defence: Defence: Procurement (25 Jun 2009)
Quentin Davies: ...in the following table: £ million Programme Direct Resource DEL and Capital DEL Indirect Resource DEL Total Aircraft Carriers 419 29 448 Joint Strike Fighter 142 50 192 Trident Replacement Programme 390 1 391 Type 45 Destroyers 443 114 557 Future Rapid Effect System 45 0 45 Astute Class Submarine 561 80 641 Typhoons 903 92 995 ...
- Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (12 Feb 2009)
Quentin Davies: ...operating for over 25 years and is now reaching the end of its technically useful working life. Its replacement, Orion, will enable us to continue to underwrite the safety and reliability of the Trident stockpile through the remainder of its service life. There is currently no programme to develop a new UK warhead, although decisions are likely to be necessary in the next Parliament....
- Written Answers — Defence: Trident (26 Nov 2008)
Quentin Davies: There was a six week delay in the two-year concept phase for the Trident successor programme due to the speed of contract letting and the build up and mobilisation of capacity in the supplier base. The Department has since taken action to bring the programme back on schedule and is confident that the submarine concept phase can still be completed in time for initial gate in Autumn 2009. This...
- Written Answers — Defence: Trident Submarines (26 Nov 2008)
Quentin Davies: MOD recognises that building the skills required, both in the Department and in industry, to successfully deliver the Trident nuclear submarine replacement programme in the future will be challenging. Initial work is underway to identify the necessary future skills base, building on and learning from experience with the astute programme. An initial audit of the projected skills requirements...
- Written Answers — Defence: Defence: Procurement (20 Nov 2008)
Quentin Davies: ...with the system development and demonstration phase of the Joint Combat Aircraft programme. The total procurement cost is likely to be up to £10 billion depending upon the number of aircraft required. (c) Trident replacement: The estimated cost will be in the range of £11-14 billion (at 2006-07 prices) for the submarines and propulsion units, for a four boat solution, as set out...
- Written Answers — Defence: AWE Aldermaston (4 Nov 2008)
Quentin Davies: ...undertaken at AWE Aldermaston. AWE currently has the capability to store, cast, machine and recycle enriched uranium. These capabilities are required for the foreseeable future, not only for use in Trident warheads, but also for submarine reactor fuel. Operation of these facilities is licensed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. In order to provide this capability into the future,...
- Written Answers — Defence: Trident Missiles (4 Nov 2008)
Quentin Davies: No. As part of a comprehensive programme of routine safety monitoring procedures, a formal design review of the Trident Re-entry System is undertaken approximately every seven years. The last such review was undertaken in 2006.
- Defence White Paper (28 Feb 2000)
Mr Quentin Davies: ...programme. As the first day of our debate made clear, they are quite incapable of formulating any clear policy on two essential strategic matters: the ballistic missile issue and the future of Trident. In addition, they have committed themselves to a budgetary process, which, if continued, will mean that the armed forces face a diminishing flow of resources in years to come. That can only...
- Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords] (17 Feb 2000)
Mr Quentin Davies: ...view that there would be serious difficulties in enforcing the 48-hour rule under which detention could be continued only with the agreement of a military lawyer of some kind—for example, a Trident submarine might be at sea and under the surface for months on end and the rule could not apply in those military circumstances—but argued that such exceptions did not invalidate the...