Aircraft Carriers
Defence

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Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the expected in-service date is for the aircraft carrier HMS (a) Queen Elizabeth and (b) Prince of Wales.

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Philip Dunne (Ludlow, Conservative)

holding answer 17 September 2012

Following the decision to revert to a STOVL design, announced by the Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend Mr Hammond, on 10 May 2012, Hansard, column 140, we are currently reviewing the QEC programme to develop revised programme estimates which will be subject to re-approval by the Ministry of Defence in due course. In the Strategic Defence and Security Review the Government committed to delivering Britain's future Carrier Strike capability from around 2020, based around the new Queen Elizabeth Class carrier and the new Joint Strike Fighter. We remain fully committed to achieving that.

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