Rescue Services: Mediterranean Sea
(asked on 25th January 2016) - View SourceQuestioner
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2015 to Question 8772, how many people have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea each week since then by (a) HMS Enterprise and (b) all Royal Navy vessels.
The total number of migrants rescued each week by all Royal Navy vessels in the Mediterranean in support of the EU Naval Forces Operation tackling migrant smuggling and trafficking (EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA) since 9 September 2015 are:
Week commencing | Number of Migrants Rescued by HMS ENTERPRISE | Number of Migrants Rescued by HMS RICHMOND | |
07-September 2015 | 0 | ||
14-September 2015 | 377 | ||
21-September 2015 | 220 | ||
28-September 2015 | 0 | ||
05-October 2015 | 639 | ||
12-October 2015 | 0 | ||
19-October 2015 | 0 | ||
26-October 2015 | 439 | 102 | |
02-November 2015 | 134 | ||
09-November 2015 | 0 | ||
16-November 2015 | 0 | ||
23-November 2015 | 54 | ||
30-November 2015 | 414 | ||
07-December 2015 | 0 | ||
14-December 2015 | 0 | ||
21-December 2015 | 0 | ||
28-December 2015 | 188 | ||
04-January 2016 | 0 | ||
11-January 2016 | 0 | ||
18-January 2016 | 0 | ||
Total | 2,331 | 236 Total 2,537 |
HMS ENTERPRISE deployed to the Mediterranean on 3 July 2015 and is the current UK contribution to EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA.
In addition, the UK contributed HMS RICHMOND to EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA from 25 October 2015 to 21 November 2015.