§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions the Defence Research Agency's premises in Dyfed have been used for development or test firing of the RAYO multiple launch rocket system.
§ Mr. AitkenManagement of the Aberporth range was transferred from the Defence Research Agency to the newly formed Directorate General of Test and Evaluation on 1 April 1992. For reasons of commercial confidentiality we do not release details of individual test firings by manufacturers at Aberporth or any of our ranges.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all those countries that have used the DRA's facilities at Aberporth in Dyfed in the past five years.
§ Mr. AitkenThree countries have used the Aberporth range's facilities directly during the past five years: Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. In addition, in 1988, the RAF's central tactics and trials organisation sponsored a major NATO trial involving aircraft from the following NATO countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the USA. We cannot, for reasons of commercial confidentiality, release details of trials in which the range's customer was United Kingdom industry but sales, or potential sales, to foreign countries were involved.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all accidents involving airborne missiles that have occurred at the DRA facility in Aberporth, Dyfed since 1979 indicating the country of origin of the missiles involved.
§ Mr. AitkenThere have been no such incidents.