Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2022 to Question 31751 on Warships: Procurement and with reference his Department's paper entitled Defence in a Competitive Age, published in March 2021, whether the funding allocated for upgrading a Bay class support ship was spent on other projects.
Answer
The life extension of RFA Argus was the measure taken in preference to the capability upgrade of the LSDA class. Therefore, apart from the routine work by Ministry of Defence agencies of assessing the work required, no funding was allocated to upgrading a Bay Class Support ship and therefore no funding was re-allocated to other projects.