To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the implications for "Options for Change" of the deployment of British service personnel with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia.

We are still discussing with the United Nations what form a United Kingdom contribution to the peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia might take. In selecting what British assets might be offered to the United Nations for this operation, the Government have taken account of its policy "Britain's Defence for the 90s".