HC Deb 06 March 1990 vol 168 c610W
33. Mr. David Porter

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assistance his Department has given to the civil community in the United Kingdom over the past year.

45. Mr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assistance his Department has given to the civil community in the United Kingdom over the past year.

79. Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assistance his Department has given to the civil community in the United Kingdom over the past year.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The services are constantly engaged in providing assistance to the civil community in one form or another. This ranges from comparatively routine projects, such as the attachment of volunteers to social service organisations, through frequent explosive ordnance disposal operations to assistance in cases of accident or natural disaster. Over the last year notable examples of assistance have been the provision of temporary accommodation to house victims of the floods in north Wales and the loan of generators and chain-saws to help provide temporary power and restore lines of communication following the storms last January.