§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 13 January,Official Report, column 514, on how many occasions battalions, other than those on a spearhead tour of duty, have been deployed over the past five years to meet various short-notice requirements, excluding Operation Granby.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonBetween January 1987 and December 1991 there have been six occasions when additional units have been deployed to meet short-notice requirements, each time to Northern Ireland, for short periods. Two units—the 1st Battalion, the Royal Highland Fusiliers and the 27th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery—are also currently temporarily deployed to the Province.