Question follow-through · 46790
Armed Forces: Emergencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what units are currently held at readiness for UK resilience tasks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 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
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what units are currently held at readiness for UK resilience tasks.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
As of the 23 April 2025, Defence holds c. 1,600 personnel at readiness for operations designed to support UK resilience. The tasks they are attributed to are wide ranging, from support in the instance of flooding (provided by the UK Standby Battalions) to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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