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Ta Units (Wales)

Volume 328: debated on Wednesday 24 March 1999

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Territorial Army units in Wales, indicating which are classed as being in (a) North Wales and (b) South Wales. [78116]

[holding answer 22 March 1999]: All Territorial Army units in Wales (current and future) can be found in the publication "Modem Forces for the Modern World: A Territorial Army for the Future"—Volume 2, a copy of which has been placed in the Library. TA units in the towns listed have been classified as either South or North as follows:

South WalesNorth Wales
AbergavennyBangor
AbertilleryCaenarfon
Aberystwyth1Colwyn Bay
BreconLlandudno
BridgendPrestatyn
CardiffQueensferry
South WalesNorth Wales
CarmarthenWrexham
Cefn Fforest
Cwmbran
Gorseinon
Haverford West
Llanelli
Monmouth
Newport
Pentre
Pontypool
Pontypridd
Swansea
1 Aberystwyth is included in the list for South Wales because it is home to a University Officers' Training Corps which is affiliated to Cardiff University, and has a detachment of 203 Field Hospital, whose headquarters is in the South.