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Written question asked by Martin Caton (Labour) on Friday, 22 November 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 28 November 2002. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Thursday, 28 November 2002 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.


Ministry of Defence

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of magnetic profiling in searching for unexploded ordnance at military training areas; whether his Department uses (a) Global Positioning System and (b) magnetometry scanning methods in surveying unexploded ordnance at military training grounds; what geophysical instrumentation the British army uses in clean-up operations at military training grounds.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
395 c376-7W; 83704;83707;83708
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Ammunition Armed forces Army Bomb disposal Landmines Training Military exercises Geophysics
Link
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