Tommy Sheppard – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tommy Sheppard on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to deploy (a) Fijian soldiers serving in the British Army and (b) other Army resources for humanitarian purposes in Fiji in response to the recent cyclone.

Penny Mordaunt

The Ministry of Defence’s humanitarian relief deployments are typically in response to either a request from the Department for International Development or directly from the government affected. The UK did not receive a request for assistance from the Fijian government and so currently has no plans to deploy personnel or assets.