§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the tour intervals were for the(a) Royal Armoured Corps, (b) Royal Artillery, (c) Royal Engineers, (d) Royal Signals and (e) Parachute Regiment in the last year for which figures are available. [26676]
§ Mr. Ingram[holding answer 11 January 2002]: The tour intervals for the corps in question during the year April 2000 to March 2001, the most recently available information, are set out in the table:
Tour intervals in 2000–01 Months Arm Length of interval Royal Armoured Corps 26 Royal Artillery 42 Royal Engineers 34 Royal Signals 24 Parachute Regiment 181 1 Tour intervals are calculated on the basis of deployments of six months or more. During the period Parachute Regiment elements were also deployed to Macedonia but as this was for three months it has not been included.