§ Captain Kerbyasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty in view of the fact that it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government to resist a major aggression in Europe with strategic nuclear weapons, what is the purpose of the eighty new, or converted, fast frigates built, or being built, for the Royal Navy.
§ Mr. C. Ian Orr-EwingThese ships are required as part of the balanced Fleet needed to fulfil the role of the Navy in peace-time, limited war and in global war, which has been explained in successive Defence White Papers and in my noble Friend's Explanatory Statements on the Navy Estimates.