Ministry of Defence: Land

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121593, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of time that Ministry of Defence land near Eelmoor Training Area will be unavailable to the public for recreational purposes as a result of (a) military training, (b) public safety, (c) security, (d) conservation and (e) the interests of tenants on that land.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 1st March 2018

Land at Long Valley Training area, which includes Eelmoor is unavailable for public recreational use for approximately 320 days each year as a result of military training.

A breakdown of the 320 days into military training, public safety, security, conservation and the interests of tenants is not recorded separately.

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