Armed Forces: Middle East

(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces are deployed in (a) Cyprus and (b) the eastern Mediterranean.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 27th February 2020

Operational demands will cause numbers to change at short notice and/or to pass through on route to other operations in the Middle East and beyond.

There are around 2,150 members of the UK Armed Forces permanently assigned to Cyprus on our Sovereign Base Area. In addition, around 250 personnel are deployed in Cyprus as part of Operation TOSCA - the British contribution to the UN peacekeeping force.

There are currently no UK Armed Forces personnel deployed in the eastern Mediterranean outside Cyprus.

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