§ Mr. Trotterasked the Secretary of State for Defence on what dates brigades were reintroduced into the Army command structure; which numbers have been allocated to the brigades (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) in Germany; and what is the location of the United Kingdom brigade headquarters.
§ Mr. BlakerThe Army Board reintroduced the title of brigade into the British Army of the Rhine on 1 January 1981 and into United Kingdom Land Forces on 1 January 1982.
The locations and numbers of the brigade headquarters in the United Kingdom, some of which would move to Germany in war, are:
Location 1st Infantry Brigade — Tidworth 2nd Infantry Brigade — Shorncliffe 2nd Signals Brigade — Aldershot 5 Infantry Brigade — Aldershot 8 Infantry Brigade — Londonderry 11 Signals Brigade — Liverpool 12 Signals Brigade — London 15 Infantry Brigade — Topcliffe 19 Infantry Brigade — Colchester 23 Artillery Brigade — Chester 29 Engineer Brigade — Newcastle 30 Engineer Brigade — Stafford 39 Infantry Brigade — Lisburn 49 Infantry Brigade — Chilwell 51 Highland Brigade — Perth 52 Lowland Brigade — Edinburgh In order to improve the command and control arrangements for Home Defence, two new brigade headquarters are to be established on 1 January 1983. These are 42 Infantry Brigade at Chester and 54 Infantry Brigade at Grantham. The numbers allocated to brigades in Germany are 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 33; 24 Brigade will be re-located to the United Kingdom in March 1983.