HC Deb 24 October 1994 vol 248 cc500-1W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the Armilla patrol costs Britain per year before UN reimbursement; and how much the deployment of aircraft to patrol the no-fly zones in Iraq is costing per year.

Mr. Soames

It is not possible to separate the costs of individual fleet tasks, such as the Armilla patrol from the costs of operating the fleet as a whole. The additional costs to the defence budget arising from the no-fly zones in the Gulf region are estimated to be:

£
1991–92 2,600,000
1992–93 8,900,000
1993–94 16,100,000
1994–95 9,400,000

Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what aircraft were used to deploy British forces to Rwanda and Zaire.

Mr. Soames

The British contingent in the United Nations assistance mission for Rwanda were deployed using a combination of British and American aircraft. The first elements travelled in Royal Air Force Hercules aircraft. The remainder deployed in US Air Force C5s and C141s operating on behalf of the United Nations.