Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Written Statement of 20 July 2015, HCWS 149, if he will make it his policy to publish the (a) numbers, (b) units and (c) dates of embedded service of UK personnel embedded in other nations' armed forces on a monthly basis.

I refer my right hon. Friend to my Written Ministerial Statement of 17 December 2015 (Official Report, column WS431).

For operational security reasons we will not routinely identify units, location or dates.