§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the standard of medical care available to aircrew manning Quick Reaction Alert aircraft at(a) RAF Leeming, (b) RAF Leuchars and (c) RAF Coningsby. [169993]
§ Mr. CaplinAll RAF medical centres are regularly inspected as part of the RAF's Formal Governance Visit programme. This programme involves a formal command level inspection of medical standards and working practices every two years, with self-assessment questionnaires being completed in the intervening years. All of the Quick Reaction Alert medical centres were assessed as satisfactory at their last inspections.