Kosovo (Hansard, 5 June 2000)

§ Mr. Nigel Griffiths
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the security situation in Kosovo. [122648]

§ Mr. Spellar
I refer my hon. Friend to the oral answer I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr Campbell-Savours),Official Report, columns 16–17.

§ Dr. Godman
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he last met his colleagues from other NATO member states to discuss the deployment of military forces in Kosovo. [122660]

§ Mr. Spellar
The situation in Kosovo has been a major subject for discussion among NATO Defence Ministers since the crisis began. The Secretary of State and other Ministers meet colleagues from NATO and other countries regularly on both a bilateral and multilateral basis. The topics for discussion range widely.
The next formal meeting of NATO Defence Ministers is on 8 and 9 June, at which he will discuss a wide range of issues including Kosovo.

§ Mr. Menzies Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of available stocks of(a) precision guided munitions and (c) non-precision guided munitions were used during operation Allied Force. [124316]

§ Mr. Spellar
The numbers of munitions used during Operation Allied Force were published by the Ministry of Defence last year, in my right hon. Friend, the then Secretary of State, Lord Robertson's account of the Kosovo crisis. Details of the percentage of our stockpile this expenditure represented would assist a potential adversary to assess our operational capability. I am therefore withholding this information in accordance with exemption 1 (Defence, Security and International Relations) of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.