HC Deb 10 June 1998 vol 313 cc609-11W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the numbers and locations of UK armed forces' personnel stationed overseas. [44187]

Mr. George Robertson

This information is not held centrally. However, the countries in which UK military personnel were serving on 1 April, together with the number in each country, based on those records which we do have available, are given in the table.

Country Number of UK armed forces personnel
Algeria 12
Angola 1
Antarctica 3
Antigua and Barbuda 1
Argentina 4
Ascension Island 25
Australia 65
Country Number of UK armed forces personnel
Austria 2
Bahrain 86
Baltic States 6
Bangladesh 2
Barbados 11
Belgium 434
Belize 192
Bermuda 3
Bosnia 5,200
Brazil 6
British Virgin Islands 4
Brunei 1,049
Bulgaria 2
Canada 684
Chile 1
China 4
Colombia 3
Croatia 2
Cyprus 3,938
Czech Republic 3
Denmark 29
Diego Garcia 40
Egypt 3
Ethiopia 2
Finland 1
France 50
Georgia 1
Germany 21,480
Ghana 6
Gibraltar 794
Greece 3
Guatemala 2
Guinea 1
Gulf Region (at sea) 1,851
Hungary 2
India 5
Indonesia 4
Iraq 4
Ireland 2
Israel 3
Italy 203
Jamaica 2
Japan 3
Jordan 3
Kenya 36
Korea (South) 3
Kuwait 572
Lebanon 6
Malaysia 6
Mauritius 1
Mediterranean area (at sea) 170
Mexico 2
Morocco 1
Nepal 66
Netherlands 294
New Zealand 9
Norway 70
Oman 239
Pakistan 5
Philippines 1
Poland 880
Portugal 44
Qatar 1
Romania 2
Russia 10
Rwanda 7
Saudi Arabia 413
Sierra Leone 4
Singapore 4
Slovakia 1
South Africa 15
South Atlantic (including Falkland Islands) 1,907
Country Number of UK armed forces personnel
Spain 10
Sri Lanka 3
Sweden 4
Switzerland 2
Syria 2
Thailand 2
Turkey 189
Turks and Caicos Islands 4
Uganda 1
Ukraine 2
United Arab Emirates 14
United States of America 1,299
Venezuela 1
West Africa Region (at sea) 255
West Indies Region (at sea) 260
Yugoslavia (Fed Rep) 2
Zimbabwe 18
Total 43,074

These figures include personnel attached to Embassies, those on exercise, those on loan or exchange postings, those training overseas personnel or undergoing long term training themselves, and those serving in NATO headquarters and our overseas garrisons. They do not include ships or aircraft on passage or undertaking temporary visits, but do cover personnel on ships engaged on operations or longer deployments overseas. Germany based personnel deployed to countries of the former Yugoslavia are shown against the latter.