HC Deb 15 January 1996 vol 269 cc418-22W
Mr. Wareing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those countries in which British military personnel have provided training assistance during the past five years. [8571]

Mr. Soames

Available records show that UK military personnel provided training assistance in the following countries between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1995:

  • Albania
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda1
  • Australia
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados1
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Botswana
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Dominica1
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Estonia2
  • Fiji
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada1
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia
  • Jamaica
  • 419
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Latvia2
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania2
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nigeria
  • Oman
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • St. Kitts Nevis1
  • St. Lucia1
  • St. Vincent1
  • Swaziland
  • Thailand
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe.
  • 1Trained by a team based in Barbados.
  • 2Collective training in Latvia.

This list covers those countries to which short-term training teams have been sent, as well as those countries in which we have resident loan service personnel or longer term British military advisory and training teams. A short-term training team also deployed to Puerto Rico to assist US forces in training the combined Caribbean community and common market contingent—comprising detachments from Jamaica, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago—and also contingents from Bangladesh and Guatemala to prepare them for operations with the multinational force in Haiti. In addition, forces on exercise overseas often provide limited training to, or train alongside, the armed forces of the host nation. A central record of such training is not, however, maintained.

Mr. Wareing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those countries whose military forces have been provided with training facilities in the United Kingdom during the past five years. [8572]

Mr. Soames

Available records show that military personnel from the following countries were given training in the UK between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1995:

  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Dominica
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Estonia
  • Falkland Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gambia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • 421
  • Kenya
  • Republic of Korea
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lithuania
  • Macedonia
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Peru
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • St. Kitts Nevis
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkey
  • USA
  • UAE
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • 422
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen
  • Zaire
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe.