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Future Nuclear Deterrent - 2016 Update to Parliament

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

On 18 May 2011 the then Defence Secretary, the Right Hon. Member for North Somerset (Dr Liam Fox), made an oral statement to the House (Official Report, column 351) announcing the approval of the Initial Gate investment stage for the procurement of the successor submarines to the Vanguard Class ballistic missile submarines. He also placed in the Library of the House a report "The United Kingdom’s Future Nuclear Deterrent: The Submarine Initial Gate Parliamentary Report".

As confirmed in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, and in accordance with the motion approved by this House on 18 July 2016, this Government is committed to publishing an annual report on the programme. I am today publishing the fifth report, “The United Kingdom’s Future Nuclear Deterrent: 2016 Update to Parliament“. A copy has been placed in the Library of the House.