§ Lord Vivianasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which infantry battalions have not carried out primary role infantry training at battalion and formation level during the last five years and the last 10 years. [HL3339]
§ The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean)In view of the various structural changes over the period concerned statistics on this basis would not be meaningful. Moreover such information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Nonetheless we are confident that the training levels of the infantry in the roles they fill are appropriate to the tasks likely to be asked of them. Their recent outstanding performance in Sierra Leone and Kosovo clearly demonstates this.