Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the deployment of UK forces overseas.

Defence has successfully maintained its core and most important outputs throughout the pandemic, reacting with agility and flexibility to mitigate the risks posed by COVID-19. Defence will continue to take a risk management approach and adopt appropriate Force Protection measures to enable the overseas deployment of UK Armed Forces personnel during the pandemic.