Armed Forces: Coronavirus

(asked on 15th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces have been deployed in each (a) local authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency part of the Government's covid-19 response.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

The information is not held in the format requested. As of 15 June, our Armed Forces are deployed to support the work of 10 Joint Military Commands (JMCs) and three other teams across the UK, broken down as follows:

Region

Total

JMC East

447

JMC London

500

JMC North East

414

JMC North West

145

JMC Northern Ireland

98

JMC Scotland

361

JMC South East

437

JMC South West

323

JMC Wales

467

JMC West Midlands

274

Logistics Support Team

42

Standing Joint Command Reserve

20

Works Group (Engineers)

10

Total

3,538

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