| Heading: |
Rescue Services: Shetland |
| Question ID: |
1798067 |
| UIN: |
48761 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5246 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Torcuil Crichton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Torcuil Crichton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Marine Coastguard Agency plan to replace the Sikorsky s92 Search and Rescue helicopter with the Augusta Westland 189 at (a) Stornoway and (b) Sumburgh coastguard base. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4316 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mike Kane
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| Answering Member handle: |
MikeKaneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@MikeKaneMP
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| Answer text: |
As set out in the contract for the Second Generation Search and Rescue Aviation programme, search and rescue helicopter provision will transition from the Sikorsky S92 to the Leonardo AW189 in Quarter 4 of 2026 at Stornoway, and in Quarter 1 of 2027 at Su... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |