asked the Secretary of State for Defence on what dates brigades were reintroduced into the Army command structure; which numbers have been allocated to the brigades (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) in Germany; and what is the location of the United Kingdom brigade headquarters.

The Army Board reintroduced the title of brigade into the British Army of the Rhine on 1 January 1981 and into United Kingdom Land Forces on 1 January 1982.The locations and numbers of the brigade headquarters in the United Kingdom, some of which would move to Germany in war, are:

		Location
1st Infantry Brigade	—	Tidworth
2nd Infantry Brigade	—	Shorncliffe
2nd Signals Brigade	—	Aldershot
5 Infantry Brigade	—	Aldershot
8 Infantry Brigade	—	Londonderry
11 Signals Brigade	—	Liverpool
12 Signals Brigade	—	London
15 Infantry Brigade	—	Topcliffe
19 Infantry Brigade	—	Colchester
23 Artillery Brigade	—	Chester
29 Engineer Brigade	—	Newcastle
30 Engineer Brigade	—	Stafford
39 Infantry Brigade	—	Lisburn
49 Infantry Brigade	—	Chilwell
51 Highland Brigade	—	Perth
52 Lowland Brigade	—	Edinburgh

In order to improve the command and control arrangements for Home Defence, two new brigade headquarters are to be established on 1 January 1983. These are 42 Infantry Brigade at Chester and 54 Infantry Brigade at Grantham. The numbers allocated to brigades in Germany are 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 33; 24 Brigade will be re-located to the United Kingdom in March 1983.