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National Army Museum

Andrew Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the correspondence between the Curator of the Royal Irish Fusiliers Regimental Museum, Armagh, dated 1 February 2008 and the Director of the National Army Museum on the National Army Museum's policies on co-operation with Regimental and Corps Museums seeking access to its archives; and if he will make a statement. [187820]

Derek Twigg [holding answer 21 February 2008]: I will write to my hon. Friend.

Type 45 Destroyers

Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what increases there have been in the planned capability of Type 45 destroyers since the stating of an intention to order (a) up to 12 and (b) eight such vessels. [193139]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Type 45 Air Defence destroyer is planned to operate with the Co-operative Engagement Capability system which greatly enhances the ship's maritime air defence capability. In the light of this improved networked capability, reduced conventional threat and our revised concurrency assumptions, we assessed that we would need fewer of these platforms.

Warships

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many times Royal Navy (a) destroyers, (b) frigates, (c) submarines, (d) mine countermeasure vessels, (e) patrol vessels, (f) amphibious assault vessels and (g) Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels underwent the Storob process (i) in each year since 2003 and (ii) in each month since January 2005. [193085]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The number of times that items or components of ships’ fitted equipment have been transferred between vessels in front line service is as follows:

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	Destroyers	Frigates	Submarines	MCMVs	Patrol vessels	Amphibious assault vessel	RFA vessels
2003	5	64	116	10	4	4	13
2004	56	57	169	36	3	12	19
2005
January	17	14	21	2	0	3	4
February	7	8	37	3	0	0	0
March	2	4	16	1	0	2	0
April	1	5	19	7	0	1	0
May	1	2	23	0	0	0	1
June	2	6	25	1	0	0	0
July	1	2	19	1	0	1	0
August	2	3	23	1	2	0	1
September	1	1	18	0	0	0	1
October	0	3	12	3	0	1	0
November	1	5	20	1	0	3	2
December	0	0	22	0	0	1	0
Total	35	53	255	20	2	12	9
2006
January	1	9	25	0	0	5	4
February	2	7	27	5	0	2	1
March	1	10	37	1	1	2	1
April	2	4	20	0	1	1	1
May	0	3	24	0	0	0	1
June	2	5	17	3	0	1	0
July	2	2	15	1	0	0	0
August	0	3	16	3	0	0	0
September	0	0	22	1	0	6	1
October	2	11	20	4	0	1	0
November	1	10	11	1	2	0	0
December	1	9	10	0	0	0	0
Total	15	73	244	19	4	18	9
2007
January	1	7	19	1	0	1	3
February	0	8	16	3	0	0	0
March	8	11	30	0	0	13	0
April	1	0	23	3	0	1	2
May	0	4	8	0	0	0	0
June	4	3	14	2	1	0	0
July	2	6	27	1	0	0	0
August	0	1	16	0	0	0	1
September	3	3	23	2	1	0	18
October	1	11	10	2	0	1	3
November	0	8	15	0	0	1	3
December	2	4	11	0	0	1	1
Total	22	66	212	14	2	18	31

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