HC Deb 15 November 1988 vol 140 c618W
2. Mr. Nicholas Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the deployment of search and rescue services in Scotland, Wales and the south-west of England.

5. Mr. Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he has now reached a decision on the deployment of military search and rescue services in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Freeman

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon, North (Mr. Speller), the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell), my hon. Friends the Members for Torridge and Devon West (Miss Nicholson) and Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) on 14 November 1988.

6. Mr. Cyril D. Townsend

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many representations he has received on the deployment of search and rescue helicopter services.

Mr. Freeman

During 1988 the Ministry of Defence has received some 2,100 representations on the deployment of search and rescue helicopters.