Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) military and (b) civilian UK personnel are currently deployed on UN (i) peacekeeping operations and (ii) special political missions; and on which operations such personnel are deployed.

The UK currently deploys 429 military personnel and one civilian adviser to UN peacekeeping operations. Four UK military staff officers are deployed to UN special political missions.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not keep additional statistics on the number of British nationals employed directly by the UN as civilian staff serving on missions.

Full statistics on troop and police contributors are published on the UN website: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors.shtml