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Mr. Home Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the occasions when port divers from the Royal Navy Reserve have rendered assistance to police and other civil authorities in England and Wales in the last five years; and if he will make a statement on the effect of the closure of the Royal Navy Reserve port diving branch on such authorities.
Mr. Peter Lloyd
This information is not held centrally, but, as far as I am aware, there have been no occasions when such assistance has been rendered in England and Wales during the last five years and I do not anticipate that the closure of the Royal Navy Reserve port diving branch will have any effect on such authorities.