Julian Lewis – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Lewis on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Ocean was last refitted; how much that refit cost; and what the intended out-of-service date was stated to be at the time of that refit.

Mr Philip Dunne

Work on the last refit of HMS Ocean began in December 2012 and was completed in August 2014 at a cost of £71 million. The timing of the refit was driven by the mandatory requirement to revalidate the ships safety and environmental certification.

The decommissioning date of 2018 is the same as that planned at the time of her refit.