RAF Boulmer: North East Air Ambulance Service

(asked on 5th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times RAF Boulmer has been called on to assist the North East Air Ambulance Service on emergency and search and rescue missions in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 10th June 2015

The number of times RAF Boulmer was called upon to assist the North East Air Ambulance is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The total number of annual Search and Rescue (SAR) callouts from RAF Boulmer for the last ten years is shown in the table below:

Year

RAF Boulmer – SAR Callouts

2005

144

2006

206

2007

170

2008

211

2009

214

2010

193

2011

181

2012

141

2013

157

2014

160

Total

1,777

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