§ Mr. Stratton Millsasked the Minister of State for Defence (1) how many members of the security forces are at any given time involved in border control; and what is the ratio of personnel to length of frontier;
(2) how many units of the British Army are actively involved in border security in Northern Ireland; and how many men are available for such duty in each of the five border counties.
§ Mr. BlakerI refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave him on 20th November. It is not the practice to provide details of the deployment of our forces.—[Vol. 846, c.312–313.]