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Armed Forces: Depleted Uranium

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will estimate the number of (a) serving and (b) retired UK service personnel who have embedded depleted uranium shrapnel. [144560]

Derek Twigg: We understand that less than five serving or retired UK service personnel carry embedded depleted uranium shrapnel following blue-on-blue incidents during Operation Telic.

Armed Forces: Deployment

Mr. Fraser: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air
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Force units were deployed for longer than four months in each of the last 10 years; and on how many occasions. [128239]

Mr. Ingram: The information requested is as follows.

(a) The standard operational tour length for the Army is six months; therefore, over the last 10 years the majority of Army units (that is Infantry, Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Signals and Royal Logistic Corps) will have deployed for longer than four months. Based on data held at HQ Land Command the table illustrates when, between 2003 and 2007, Infantry, Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Artillery units deployed on an operation which was longer than four months. Deployments are noted in the year they commenced.

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		Number of Deployments longer than four months
Ser	Unit Deployed	2003	2004	2005	2006	( 1) 2007
	Infantry
1	1(st) Battalion Grenadier Guards	0	1	0	0	1
2	1(st) Battalion Coldstream Guards	0	0	1	0	0
3	1(st) Battalion Scots Guards	0	1	0	0	0
4	1(st) Battalion Irish Guards	1	0	0	0	1
5	1(st) Battalion Welsh Guards	0	1	0	1	0
6	1(st) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 RS)(3)	2 (one of which commenced November 2002)	0	0	1	0 (As l Scots)
7	1(st) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 KOSB)(3)	0	0	0	0
8	2(nd) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland	0	0	0	0	0
9	3(rd) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland	1	0	1	(2)0	0
10	4(th) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland	1	1	0	0	0
11	5(th) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland	0	1	1	0	0
12	1(st) Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment	0	1	0	1	0
13	2(nd) Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment	1	0	1	0	0
14	1(st) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	(2)1	0	1	0	0
15	2(nd) Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers	0	0	(2)0	0	0
16	1(st) Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment	0	0	1	0	1
17	2(nd) Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment	1	0	0	1	0
18	1(st) Battalion The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment(4)	0	0	1	—	—
19	1st Battalion The King's Regiment(4)	0	(2)0	0	—	—
20	1(st) Battalion The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment(4)	0	(2)0	(2)0	—	—
21	1(st) Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment	—	—	—	0	0
22	2(nd) Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment	—	—	—	1	0
23	1(st) Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment	0	1	0	1	0
24	2(nd) Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment	0	1	0	1	0
25	3(rd) Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment	(2)0	1	0	0	0
26	1(st )Battalion The Royal Welsh	0	1	0	0	1
27	2(nd) Battalion The Royal Welsh	1	0	1	0	1
28	1(st) Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (1 MERCIAN)	0	1	0	0	0
29	1(st) Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (2 MERCIAN)	1	1	0	0	1
30	1(st) Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment (3 MERCIAN)	1 (commenced November 2002)	0	1	1	0
31	1(st) Battalion The Rifles (1RGBW)(5)	1 (commenced December 2002)	0	1	0	0 (as 1 RIFLES
32	1(st) Battalion The Rifles (1 DDLI)(5)	0	0	0	1
33	2(nd) Battalion The Rifles	0	1	0	1	0
34	3(rd) Battalion The Rifles	(2)0	1	0	(2)0	0
35	4(th) Battalion The Rifles	0	0	0	0	1
36	5(th) Battalion The Rifles	1	0	0	1	0
37	1(st )Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment	0	0	1	0	0
38	1(st) Battalion The Parachute Regiment	1	0	1
39	2(nd) Battalion The Parachute Regiment	1 (commenced September 2002)	0	1	0	0
40	3(rd) Battalion The Parachute Regiment	1	0	(2)0	1	0
41	1(st) Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles	1	0	1	0	0
42	2(nd) Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles	1	0	1	0	0
	Royal Armoured Corps
43	The Household Cavalry Regiment	(2)0	1	0	(2)0	(2)0
44	1(st) The Queen’s Dragoon Guards	1	1	0	1	0
45	The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	1	0	1	0	0
46	The Royal Dragoon Guards	0	1	0	0	0
47	The Queen’s Royal Hussars	1	(2)0	0	1	0
48	9(th)/12(th) Royal Lancers	(2)1	0	1	0	0
49	The King’s Royal Hussars	1	0	1	0	(2)0
50	The Light Dragoons	0	0	1	(2)0	(2)0
51	The Queen’s Royal Lancers	0	1	0	1	0
52	2(nd) Royal Tank Regiment	(2)0	0	0	(2)0	(2)0
	Royal Artillery
53	1 Regt RHA	0	1	1	0	1
54	3 Regt RHA	2	0	1	0	0
55	4 Regt RA	1	1	0	1	0
56	5 Regt RA	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0
57	7 (Parachute) Regt RHA	1	(2)0	0	(2)0	0
58	12 Regt RA	1	0	1	(2)0	0
59	16 Regt RA	(2)0	0	0	0	(2)0
60	19 Regt RA	0	0	1	0	1
61	22 Regt RA(7)	1	—	—	—	—
62	26 Regt RA	1	1	0	(2)0	0
63	29 Commando Regt RA	0	0	0	1	0
64	32 Regt RA	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0	(2)0
65	39 Regt RA	0	0	0	1	(2)0
66	40 Regt RA	0	0	0	1	0
67	47 Regt RA	1	0	(2)0	1	0
(1 )Up to and including deployments on Op TELIC 10 and Op HERRICK 6. (2) Subunits from this Regiment deployed for longer than 4 months in support of operations during this year. (3) 1 RS and 1 KOSB amalgamated to form 1 SCOTS in August 2006. (4) 1 KORBR, 1 KINGS and QLR amalgamated in July 2006 to form 1 LANCS and 2 LANCS. (5) 1 RGBW and 1 DDLI amalgamated in March 2007 to form 1 RIFLES. (6) 1 PARA transferred to DSF in August 2005. (7) 22 Regt RA disbanded in April 2004.

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