To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2022 to Question 13040 on Destroyers and Frigates: Deployment, how many days each Royal Navy (a) frigate and (b) destroyer spent at sea in 2022.

The information requested is given in the following tables.

Type 45 Destroyers

Type 23 Frigates

The normal operating cycle of every ship involves them entering different readiness levels depending on their programmes, periods of refit and Departmental planning requirements. In addition, these figures represent days at sea, and it should be noted that, while deployed away from the UK, ships will spend both days at sea and alongside in ports around the world.

Some of the above figures may differ from those provided in previous Parliamentary Questions or Freedom of Information responses, as greater accuracy has been achieved by an update to fleet scheduling software in 2022.