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Lord West of Spithead to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 17 January (HL4577) concerning the planned decommissioning of HMS Ocean in 2018, whether an agreement has now been made to sell HMS Ocean to the government of Brazil; if so, for how much; and what assessment they have made of the value for money of undertaking a £65 million refit of HMS Ocean over 15 months, as announced on 12 December 2012, which was due to be completed less than four years before that ship is to be decommissioned.  HL4978

Question HL4978: tabled on 22 January 2018 and due for answer by 5 February 2018

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Lord West of Spithead to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 17 January (HL4577) concerning the planned decommissioning of HMS Ocean in 2018, whether an agreement has now been made to sell HMS Ocean to the government of Brazil; if so, for how much; and what assessment they have made of the value for money of undertaking a £65 million refit of HMS Ocean over 15 months, as announced on 12 December 2012, which was due to be completed less than four years before that ship is to be decommissioned.  HL4978
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Lord West of Spithead
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