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<p>Military personnel are trained in a range of skills which can be applied to emergency
and natural disaster response. On top of this we routinely provide specific training
for personnel deploying on humanitarian and disaster response operations in the UK
and overseas. For example we have provided a specific Ebola treatment course at our
base in Catterick for medical personnel deploying to Sierra Leone.</p><p> </p><p>Since
2010, military personnel have responded to 10 significant emergencies and natural
disasters overseas and six at home. UK personnel have responded to a number of smaller
domestic emergencies in the UK under Military Aid to the Civil Authorities - for example,
missing person searches. We also respond to a number of smaller emergencies abroad,
for example, the Royal Navy takes part in numerous tasks during hurricane season in
the Caribbean, under core tasks.</p><p> </p><p>We have defined 'significant' emergencies
as those operations involving more than one hundred personnel. A list of which is
given below. A list of all smaller emergencies could be provided only at disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Activity</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humanitarian
aid mission response to floods in Pakistan.</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support in severe cold weather in the UK.</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport
of UK nationals following disruption of air travel by ash cloud from volcanic eruption
in Iceland.</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haiti natural disaster relief</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support to evacuation of British Entitled Personnel from Tripoli, Libya.</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support to security for the 2012 London Olympics</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humanitarian
aid response to natural disaster in the Philippines.</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support in response to East Coast flooding</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support to Dept of Communities and Local Government resilience plans to cover fire
fighter industrial action.</p></td><td><p>2013 - Ongoing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humanitarian
support to trapped Yazidi community on Mount Sinjar.</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Search
for missing airliner MH370 in the Indian Ocean.</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support to evacuation of British Eligible Personnel from Tripoli, Libya.</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support in response to winter flooding in the UK.</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military
support to the Department of Health resilience plans to cover ambulance driver industrial
action.</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Military operation to support
Nigeria in response to Boko Haram abductions of female students.</p></td><td><p>2014
– Ongoing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK response to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.</p></td><td><p>2014
- Ongoing</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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