§ 23. Sir Thomas ArnoldTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about the training programme in Belize. [14650]
§ Mr. SoamesThe British Army training support unit, Belize is set up to conduct jungle, field firing and adventure training, primarily at company level, and expects to train seven such deployments from the United Kingdom each year, each lasting for about six weeks. Although we do not have a regular requirement for 627W exercises of bigger units, there will be occasions when we would wish to deploy battalions and we have such an exercise planned for July next year.