HC Deb 27 November 1986 vol 106 cc344-5W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Bicester base in Oxfordshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(2) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Feltwell base in Cambridgeshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(3) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of the army base at Tidworth in Hampshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(4) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Locking base in Somerset into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(5) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of the Army base at Bulford in Dorset into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(6) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of the Army base at Colerne in Wiltshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(7) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Borden base in Hampshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(8) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(9) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Newton base in Nottinghamshire into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(10) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of the air force base at Lakenheath into a United States wartime contingency hospital;

(11) what information he has about plans to convert all or part of RAF Kemble base in Gloucestershire into a United States wartime contingency hospital.

Mr. Freeman

Contingency hospitals exist at the following RAF stations:

  • Little Rissington
  • Nocton Hall
  • Chessington
  • Bicester
  • Feltwell
  • Upwood

In addition, permission has been given for the establishment of contingency wartime hospitals at the following locations:

  • RAF Locking
  • RM Condor, Arbroath

Contingency wartime hospitals do not exist at Bordon, Newton, Waterbeach, Cosford, Colerne, Bulford, Tidworth, Lakenheath or Kemble.