HL Deb 28 November 2001 vol 629 cc42-3WA
Lord Vivian

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many training excursions for the Armed Forces have been cancelled in 2000 and 2001. [HL1474]

Lord Bach

Seventy-eight training exercises originally listed in the Ministry of Defence's Defence Exercise Programme (which lists some 350 exercises each year) and in the exercise programmes of the front line commands, the Permanent Joint HQ and the Defence Logistic Organisation HQ have been cancelled in 2000 and 2001. The number of unit-organised exercises which have been cancelled is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.