HC Deb 05 March 1992 vol 205 c283W
Mr. Foulkes

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all RAF training deployments to Alaska since 1988, stating, for each deployment,(a) the number and type of aircraft, (b) the location of the deployment, (c) the title of the exercise, (d) the types of training carried out during the deployment, (e) the number of sorties flown and (f) the additional cost of providing the training in Alaska rather than Europe or Labrador.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

Four Tornado GR1 deployed to Eielson air force base For Exercise Distant Frontier in June 1990. The aircraft carried out tactical flying training and weapon practice. Forty-one sorties were flown. The information requested on additional costs is not readily indentifiable.