Hilary Benn – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2015-11-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK personnel have served in UN peacekeeping missions in each of the last 10 years.
Penny Mordaunt
Over the past 10 years, UK military personnel have been deployed to a number of UN mandated peacekeeping missions including: Cyprus (UNFICYP), Mali (MINUSMA), South Sudan (UNMISS), Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), Liberia (UNMIL), Dafur (UNAMID), UNAMI (IRAQ), UNIOSIL (Sierra Leone), UNMIK (Kosovo), UNOMIG (Georgia), UNMIN (Nepal), UNAMA (Afghanistan), UNSOM (Somalia) and UNSMIL (Libya/Tunisia).
The number of military personnel who have deployed on the various UN operations is set out below:
|
2006* |
2007* |
2008* |
2009* |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015** |
|
|
Total number of UK personnel deployed per year |
295 |
290 |
301 |
293 |
279 |
276 |
280 |
278 |
285 |
287 |
* The details supplied are correct as of 31 January each year.
** Correct as of 10 November 2015.
