Question follow-through · 3761
Royal Engineers: Development Aid and Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Royal Engineers have helped to construct road bridges in (a) aid and (b) peacekeeping missions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Royal Engineers have helped to construct road bridges in (a) aid and (b) peacekeeping missions.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Corps of Royal Engineers primarily builds temporary bridges that enable military road traffic to cross dry and wet gaps during operational deployments. The Corps of Royal Engineers has not recently helped to construct road bridges in aid or peacekeepi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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