§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Defence if Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Army units, following partici- 666W pation in a bilateral or multilateral exercise, are required to file reports on the difficulties encountered in the exercise because of a lack of standardisation or interoperability.
§ Dr. GilbertBilateral and multilateral exercises usually have several specific objectives. From time to time one of the exercise objectives is to reveal problems arising from lack of standardisation or interoperability, and reports are made accordingly. In other exercises, without this particular objective, reports would be made on an ad hoc basis. Formal arrangements exist within NATO for reports to be made on major NATO exercises and these would cover any difficulties encountered because of a lack of standardisation or interoperability.