Infantry Tours Mr. Jenkin To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which infantry regiments have had a 24-month tour interval in the past five years. [112012] Mr. Ingram Of the 40 Infantry Battalions, the 29 Battalions listed as follows are expected to achieve at least one 24 month tour interval between deployments in the period January 1999 to December 2003. Deployments have been defined as unaccompanied unit level operational tours. 1st Bn Grenadier Guards1st Bn Coldstream Guards1st Bn Scots Guards1st Bn Irish Guards1st Bn Welsh Guards1st Bn The Royal Scots1st Bn The Royal Highland Fusiliers Mr. Ingram The Hercules C-130J Mk 5 aircraft came into service with the RAF in 2000 and forms part of the combined Hercules C-130J and C-130K fleet. The Hercules fleet provides a strategic lift capability for the RAF and it is currently planned that the C-130J Mk 5 will have a service life well into the present century. Norman Lamb To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many hours have been flown in each of the last 12 months by (a) the RAF's short-fuselage C-130J Hercules C5 aircraft, (b) the long-fuselage Hercules C4s and (c) C-130K Hercules variants. [112693] Mr. Ingram The following table shows the number of flying hours achieved for each Hercules aircraft type over the last 12 months: 1st Bn The King's Own Scottish Borderers1st Bn The Black Watch1st Bn The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders1st Bn The Highlanders1st Bn The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment2nd Bn The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment1st Bn The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers1st Bn The Royal Anglian Regiment1st Bn The King's Own Royal Border Regiment1st Bn The King's Regiment1st Bn The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire1st Bn The Green Howards1st Bn The Queen's Lancashire Regiment1st Bn The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment1st Bn The Royal Welch Fusiliers1st Bn The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment1st Bn The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment1st Bn The Light Infantry2nd Bn The Light Infantry1st Bn The Royal Green Jackets2nd Bn The Royal Green Jackets1st Bn The Royal Gurkha Rifles