Speeches

Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2015 to Question 8772, how many people have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea each week since then by (a) HMS Enterprise and (b) all Royal Navy vessels.

Penny Mordaunt

The total number of migrants rescued each week by all Royal Navy vessels in the Mediterranean in support of the EU Naval Forces Operation tackling migrant smuggling and trafficking (EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA) since 9 September 2015 are:

Week commencing

Number of Migrants Rescued by HMS ENTERPRISE

Number of Migrants Rescued by HMS RICHMOND

07-September 2015

0

14-September 2015

377

21-September 2015

220

28-September 2015

0

05-October 2015

639

12-October 2015

0

19-October 2015

0

26-October 2015

439

102

02-November 2015

134

09-November 2015

0

16-November 2015

0

23-November 2015

54

30-November 2015

414

07-December 2015

0

14-December 2015

0

21-December 2015

0

28-December 2015

188

04-January 2016

0

11-January 2016

0

18-January 2016

0

Total

2,331

236 Total 2,537

HMS ENTERPRISE deployed to the Mediterranean on 3 July 2015 and is the current UK contribution to EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA.

In addition, the UK contributed HMS RICHMOND to EUNAVFOR Op SOPHIA from 25 October 2015 to 21 November 2015.