To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to mark the role played in the defence of the UK by the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve in its centenary year. (190610)

[holding answer 29 February 2008]: I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement the then Minister of State for the Armed Forces made on 12 June 2007, Official Report, column 41WS, and the reply I gave, as current hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces, on 17 September 2007, Official Report, column 2176W, to the hon. Member for Westbury (Dr. Murrison).

I hope to be in a position to make an announcement on the events that are planned to mark the role played by the Territorial Army in the very near future.