Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether there was a demand for maritime assets to respond to a number of recent incidents; and who in the Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre has the authority to decide on priorities and allocate forces accordingly.

Each incident and response is judged and decided on its own merits. At present JMOCC (Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre) focuses on intelligence sharing and coordination support to operations. It is the aspiration for JMOCC to have the authority to decide on prioritising and allocation of cross government capabilities by 2019.