HC Deb 14 July 1983 vol 45 c414W
Sir Antony Buck

asked the Secretary of State for Defence when he plans to resume the deployment of Royal Navy task groups out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation area.

Mr. Stanley

I am glad to say that we shall be deploying a Royal Navy task group to the Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand and the Far East this September. The group, which will be led by HMS Invincible, will spend some seven months on deployment before returning to the United Kingdom next April.

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