Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how much his Department has spent on specific steps to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to date.

The cost of the operation has not yet been calculated in detail. However, under an existing arrangement with Department for International Development (DFID) governing military support to humanitarian assistance operations, the majority of costs incurred by the Ministry of Defence will be met by DFID.