§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many(a) Royal Navy, (b) Royal Air Force, (c) Army and (d) civilian MoD personnel are on deployment to (i) NATO HQ in Brussels (ii) NATO Southern Command and (iii) other NATO command centres; and if he will make a statement. [141346]
§ Mr. IngramAs at 1 December 2003, the number of United Kingdom Ministry of Defence armed forces and civilian personnel in NATO HQs was as follows:
Naval service
RAF Army Civilian Total NATO HQ 20 15 22 16 73 Southern Region 147 99 98 0 344 Other HQs 258 529 459 1 1,247 Total 425 643 579 17 1,664 In addition, the Ministry of Defence has a small number of people on secondment to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that work within the NATO organisation.
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§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many military diplomatic personnel have been deployed to the United States in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [141347]
§ Mr. IngramDuring the last five years since November 1998, 26 Service Attachés have been deployed to the United States. These are broken down as follows
Three Defence Attachés (also the Head of the British Defence Staff, Washington)Three Naval Attaches and five Assistant Naval AttachésThree Military (Army) Attachés and three Assistant Military AttachésThree Air Attachés and three Assistant Air AttachésThree Heads of British Defence Intelligence Liaison StaffThere is overlap due to some of the Attaches commencing duty prior to November 1998.