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Written statement made by Lord Drayson (Labour) on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 in the House of Lords, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Armed Forces: Personnel Deployed Overseas

My right honourable friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Adam Ingram) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. In a Written Answer of 19 December (Official Report, Commons, col. 2333W) I provided details of the number of personnel deployed overseas on operations. I regret that some of the information was incorrect; the table below corrects the original Answer. The data collected are from manual records¹ and show that on 7 December 2005 the following numbers of service personnel were deployed on operations overseas.

Country Service Personnel
Afghanistan 820
Bahrain2 350
Bosnia-Herzegovina 760
Cyprus 3,380
Diego Garcia 40
Democratic Republic of Congo 10
Georgia 10
Gibraltar 569
Iraq 7,580
Kosovo 190
Liberia -
Qatar 270
Sierra Leone 10
South Atlantic3 1,460
Sudan -
USA 30
1 Data are based on personnel reports collated manually from operational deployments, and may not include all current operations. Figures include UK Regular Forces and Reserve Forces. 2 Includes personnel stationed on ships in the Gulf region. 3 Includes Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands. When rounding to the nearest 10, numbers ending in five have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias. - Denotes less than five.

Location statistics for service personnel may also be compiled based on posted location rather than deployed location. Posted location is where an individual is permanently based. The numbers of personnel posted to each location abroad are shown in Tri-Service Publication 6, Global Location of UK Regular Forces (TSP 6). TSP 6 is published quarterly; the most recent publication shows the numbers of service personnel at 1 October 2005.

Secondary information

Type
Written statement
Reference
681 c7-8WS 
Session
2005-06
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP 06/810
Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons
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Monday, 19 December 2005
Written questions
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Armed Forces
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Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Armed forces Deployment
Contains statistics
Yes