§ Mr. Trotterasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will give details of the extent to which each
Ship Refitting dockyard Start date Completion date Outturn* £ million Batch 1A Leander Devonport 8 June 1970 12 January 1973 7.587 Ajax Devonport 19 October 1970 7 February 1974 8.269 Galatea Devonport 4 October 1971 6 September 1974 9.217 Batch 1B Aurora Chatham 4 December 1972 27 February 1976 15.580 Naiad Devonport 15 January 1973 20 June 1975 10.410 Euryalus Devonport 7 May 1973 12 March 1976 12.127 Arethusa Portsmouth 10 September 1973 7 April 1977 16.585 Dido Devonport 7 July 1975 27 October 1978 23.006 Batch 2A Cleopatra Devonport 23 July 1973 19 December 1975 13.820 Phoebe Devonport 5 August 1974 28 April 1977 18.204 Sirius Devonport 10 March 1975 10 February 1978 21.598 Minerva Chatham 1 December 1975 11 April 1979 31.575 Batch 2B Argonaut Devonport 23 February 1976 28 March 1980 30.262 Danae Devonport 1 August 1977 8 April 1981 39.279 Penelope Devonport 30 January 1978 15 January 1982 47.687 Batch 3A Andromeda Devonport 3 January 1978 6 February 1981 59.990 Charybdis Devonport 25 June 1979 16 July 1982 61.581 Jupiter Devonport 28 January 1980 14 October 1983 †68.348 Hermione Chatham/Devonport 14 January 1980 8 December 1983 †79.692 Scylla Devonport 10 November 1980 Mid 1985 †79.278 * At current prices for the year in question announced in Cmnd. 8288 in 1981. † Latest estimate. Note:
In accordance with decisions, the remaining Batch 3 ships Achilles, Diomede, Apollo and Ariadne will not be modernised. Juno is currently being converted at Rosyth to serve as a navigational training ship.