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Armed Forces: Warships

Answer

There is no requirement to keep contractual information beyond seven years, and the costs of upkeep contracts that were completed prior to 2001 are no longer held. While details of upkeep contracts that were awarded following competition or under the SSS programme are provided in the following tables, it is not possible to provide complete details of contracts awarded through the allocated programme as some of the information is held in archive. Once this has been retrieved and analysed, I will write to the noble Lord with the requested information.

Competed contracts
HM Ship	Type	Refit dates	Approx. duration (weeks)	Contracted price (£m) ¹	Final cost (£m)
Gloucester	T42	Feb 02-Apr 03	63	23.4	23.4
Argyll	T23	Jun 03-Nov 03	24	5.6	5.6
Chatham	T22	Jan 04-May 04	20	6.6	6.6
Manchester	T42	Apr 04-Oct 04	28	6.9	6.6 ²
Lancaster	T23	May 04-Dec 04	32	7.6	7.6
Somerset	T23	May 06-Jun 07	56	11.9	11.9
Portland	T23	May 06-Jan 07	44	8.7	8.7
Cornwall	T22	Nov 04-Dec 05	56	13.4	13.4
Richmond	T23	Aug 05-Sep 06	56	9.4	9.4
Kent	T23	Jan 05-Jun 05	24	5.8	5.8

"¹ Out-turn cost data is not required for competed contracts as the price is agreed as part of the contract negotiations.""² The final cost for HMS Manchester was subject to implementation of a Target Cost Incentive Fee shareline, therefore cost underruns were shared between the MOD and the company." "² The final cost for HMS Manchester was subject to implementation of a Target Cost Incentive Fee shareline, therefore cost underruns were shared between the MOD and the company."

Contracts placed under the SSS Programme
HM Ship	Type	Refit dates	Duration (weeks)	Contracted price incl. profit and growth (£m)	Out-turn cost excl. profit (£m)	Final cost (£m)
Liverpool	T42	Nov 06-Apr 07	22	5.6	Out-turn and final costs will not be available until final cost certificates have been submitted by the contractor
Cumberland	T22	Dec 06-Feb 08	60	17.5
Iron Duke	T23	Feb 07-Nov 07	40	10.8
Gloucester	T42	May 07 Nov 07	30	6.4
St Albans	T23	May 07-Jul 08	60	15.4

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

705 c280WA; 6400

Session

2007-08

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2009-0090
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Deposited papers
House of Lords

Subjects

Contracts Costs Repairs and maintenance Warships Type 23 frigates Type 22 frigates Type 42 destroyers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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