HC Deb 30 October 1990 vol 178 cc498-9W
23. Mr. Ray Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by what date he now expects the Trident production programme to be completed; and what was his Department's original date for expecting completion.

Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by what date he now expects the Trident production programme to be completed; and what was his Department's original date for expecting completion.

Mr. Alan Clark

Trident remains on programme to enter service as planned in the mid-1990s. There has been no slippage in the in-service date since the decision to proceed with Trident II was announced in March 1982.