HC Deb 23 July 1996 vol 282 c210W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's latest planning assumption for the outstanding number of Trident D5 missiles to be procured from the United States of America. [39178]

Mr. Arbuthnot

Our current planning assumptions are that a further 21 Trident missiles will be purchased in three batches of seven in US fiscal years 1997, 1998 and 1999.