HC Deb 28 June 1999 vol 334 cc4-5W
Ms Drown

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if it is Her Majesty's Government's policy to follow the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations' guidelines on the minimum age for peacekeepers in relation to the UK members of the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo. [88015]

Mr. Doug Henderson

[holding answer 24 June 1999]I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Dr. Tonge) on 24 June 1999,Official Report, column 451.

Location/unit Notes
Kosovo
The 1st Battalion The Irish Guards Battalion Headquarters, 2 companies, fire support company
The 1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers 1 company
The 1st Battalion The Green Howards 1 company
The 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment Includes a company from The 3nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment
The 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Regiment
The 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment Includes a company from the 1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
Bosnia
The 1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers Battalion Headquarters, 2 companies, fire support company Includes a company of Gurkhas
The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment Includes a company of Gurkhas
Northern Ireland
The 1st Battalion The Green Howards Includes a company from the 1st Battalion The Black Watch
The 1st Battalion The Royal Scots Includes a company from The 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
The 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards
The1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
The Royal Dragoon Guards Armour in the infantry role
32 Regiment Royal Artillery Artillery in the infantry role
The 1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers Resident
The 1st Battalion The Scots Guards Resident
The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment Resident
The 1st Battalion The Queen's Lancashire Regiment Resident
The 1st Battalion The Royal Green Jackets Resident
The 1st Battalion The King's Regiment

In addition, there are six Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment, comprising both full-time and part-time members, which are wholly committed to Northern Ireland.

Units are not 'deployed' to Germany. The following infantry battalions are, however, currently in Germany:

Location/unit Notes
Germany
2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets
lst Battalion The Royal Regiment of Wales

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