§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the countries in which British military forces are based; and what is the number of service personnel at each such base. [30513]
§ Mr. SoamesThe deployment of United Kingdom forces at April 1996 is shown in figure 3 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1996", a copy of which is in the Library of the House.
The number of UK service personnel at permanent overseas stations is as follows:
Number Ascension Islands 156 Brunei 948 Cyprus 3,874 Diego Garcia 40 Falkland Islands1 Germany 23,500 Gibraltar 587 Hong Kong 1,920 1 It is not our practice to publish the size of the Falklands garrison. In addition some 10,500 service personnel are serving in the former Yugoslavia.