Warships: Exports
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the total value of recent UK warship exports, including those of the Type 26 and Type 31 frigate programmes.
Answered by Luke Pollard
The UK continues to support defence exports through the provision of design expertise, government‑to‑government engagement, and industrial collaboration. Recent successes include an agreement worth £10 billion to supply Norway with Type 26 frigates, and the selection of the Type 26 design by the navies of both Canada and Australia. The Arrowhead 140 design, upon which the Royal Navy’s Type 31 frigate is based, has also been exported to Poland and Indonesia. These programmes demonstrate the competitiveness of UK naval design and contribute to sustaining the nation’s maritime industrial base.
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