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date	31/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses criteria to decide whether an international deployment of the armed forces is (a) combat and (b) non-combat.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	8189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>All deployments and situations are different, because of this it would be very difficult to create a defined list of criteria to cover every scenario. Missions can also change over time, for example a deployment to provide humanitarian aid could escalate to civil unrest and the military need to be able to quickly and flexibly respond to those situations.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 05/11/2019 11:55:51 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1147141

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question 167831 and with reference to paragraph 87 of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s report of 6 August 2019 entitled The Role of Parliament in the UK Constitution: Authorising the Use of Military Force, how his Department determines whether an international deployment of the armed forces falls (a) above and (b) below the conflict threshold.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	292070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Whilst the term 'conflict threshold' was used during the oral evidence session for the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to explain the difference between combat operations and wider military activity, it is not a formal term that the Ministry of Defence uses to define different operations. Broadly speaking there is a difference between military activity overseas which happens every day for a whole range of purposes, and military combat operations which are much rarer. Given the varying nature of military operations we do not believe it would be possible to establish a strict 'conflict threshold' definition, instead emerging military activity is assessed on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 07/10/2019 15:19:16 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt