To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) location and (b) total number of personnel was for each current operational deployment since 1997. (119057)

The following table shows the number of service personnel deployed on operations by operation at 4 January 2006 and 1 January 2007.

Due to the manual nature of the data collection, comparable reliable figures are not available prior to December 2005 when a review of the data collation process was undertaken.

Data on the precise locations of personnel on current operational deployments could be provided only at disproportionate cost.