HC Deb 29 January 1993 vol 217 cc895-6W
Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 26 January,Official Report, columns 645–46, on expenditure on the refit of the royal yacht Britannia, if he will give a breakdown of the category listed as "other".

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The category listed as "other" contained the following elements:

  • Cold, cool and provision rooms
  • Galley and laundry
  • Crew accommodation
  • Navigation and communications
  • Lobbies and passageways
  • Air conditioning and ventilation plant and systems
  • Asbestos removals in areas other than royal apartments
  • Anchors, cable and rigging
  • Opening and closing shipping routes
  • Docking and undocking the ship
  • Safety, security and other general activities
  • Ladders and brows
  • Jack and ensign staffs and upper deck lockers
  • Davits derricks and booms
  • Awnings and stanchions
  • Fixed eyeplates and miscellaneous lifting appliances
  • Auxiliary boiler and domestic steam system
  • Steering gear
  • Stabilisers
  • Winches
  • Lubrication oil systems and coolers
  • Feed systems and pumps
  • Fuel filling, storage and transfer systems including pumps
  • Fresh water system
  • Lifts
  • General fire protection
  • Rewiring outside royal apartments
  • Diesel and steam generators and associated switchboards
  • Conversion machinery
  • Miscellaneous update of equipment and systems.

Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the ranks and numbers serving within each rank on the Royal yacht Britannia.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The current personnel complement of Her Majesty's yacht Britannia is as follows:

Number
Officers
Rear admiral 1
Commander 4
Lieutenant commander 8
Lieutenant 6
Sub lieutenant 1
Total officers 20
Ratings
Warrant officer 2
Charge chief petty officer 4
Chief petty officer 22
Sergeant 1
Petty officer 26
Corporal 1
Leading hand 60
Marine 7
Able rate 106
Total ratings 229

Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if the cost of the Royal yacht Britannia includes the cost of the support vessels which accompany her.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

No, nor is it possible to identify such support element costs without incurring disproportionate cost.

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