§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the increase in a number of United States military personnel at Glen Douglas since 1981.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThere has been no increase in the number of US military personnel at Glen Douglas since 1981. I regret that there was an error in the figures for 1979 to 1981 in the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) on 3 December 1987 at; columns709–10. There have been 18 US military personnel located at Glen Douglas during each year of the period 1979 to 1987, consisting of two personnel stationed there on a permanent basis (hence the figures for the years 1979 to 1981 in my earlier reply) and a further 16 personnel on tours of detached duty on a rotating basis.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the increase in number of United States military personnel at Machrihanish between 1981 and 1987.
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§ Mr. Ian StewartThe number of United States military personnel at RAF Machrihanish increased in 1981 with the arrival of a United States navy special warfare unit. Fluctuations in the numbers since then result from the composition of the unit which has a small permanent staff and additional personnel on detachment from the United States for periods of about six months.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if the 1973 United States-United Kingdom lines of communication arrangement provides for logistic support to be supplied to United States forces that are not acting in support of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation operations.
§ Mr. Ian StewartNo.