HC Deb 08 June 1999 vol 332 cc208-9W
Mr. Healey

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what definition his Department uses of(a) active service and (b) conflict zone, in respect of military service. [84938]

Mr. Spellar

(a) I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by the then Minister of State for the Armed Forces to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) on 9 March 1998, Official Report, column 46. (b) The Department has no definition of a conflict zone, as this expression has no recognised meaning.