§ Mr. KeetchTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 8 February 2001,Official Report, column 633W, on malaria, and his subsequent letter, how many service personnel of the 200 deployed to Sierra Leone without anti-malarial treatment have since been diagnosed with malaria; to which regiments they belong; and if he will make a statement. [155073]
§ Dr. MoonieI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 27 February 2001,Official Report, columns 609–10W. There are no more than 10 personnel who have contracted malaria among the group who deployed without anti-malaria tablets. These personnel were from 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment and 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment.