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Defence Ministers meet their counterparts regularly at multinational meetings throughout the year. The Secretary of State for Defence most recently met the Defence Ministers of Norway, Finland and Sweden at the Northern Group meeting in Helsinki in December 2013, and I had a bilateral meeting with the Defence Minister of Sweden at the EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting in Luxemboug in April 2014.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1466", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Wiltshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Dr Andrew Murrison"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-04-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-04-29T12:00:00.00Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "11"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Defence"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Defence"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-04-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when Ministers in his last met their counterparts from (a) Norway, (b) Finland and (c) Sweden.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/318", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Spellar"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Warley"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr John Spellar"} ], "uin" : "196262"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/48181", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Defence"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/48181/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

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I regularly engage with my Baltic counterparts, including through EU and NATO meetings. I visited Latvia and Lithuania in September 2013; and I intend to visit the region again in the very near future.<\/p>

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In December 2013 I visited Estonia where I signed the General Defence Engagement Memorandum of Understanding between our two countries.<\/p>

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All armoured fighting vehicles deployed to Afghanistan will be returned to the UK. None of these have been destroyed and none are currently due to be sold.<\/p>

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The information on costs associated with this activity cannot be readily broken out from the wider costs of all equipment and personnel recovery.<\/p>

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NATO is not patrolling Ukranian airspace. Therefore, nor is the UK. However, the UK is contributing an E3-D aircraft to the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force flying in NATO airspace and it will be deploying four Typhoon aircraft to enhance the Polish rotation of NATO's peacetime Baltic Air Policing mission, which polices NATO airspace.<\/p>

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RAF Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) personnel are based at RAF Waddington and Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.<\/p>

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RAF Personnel are from the following branches or specialisation:<\/p>

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Branch/Specialisation<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Pilot<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Sensor Operator<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Mission Intelligence Coordinator<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Operations<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Engineer<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Administration<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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RAF RPAS Squadrons can also include personnel from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Army.<\/p>

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Details of the air proximity incidents involving Typhoon aircraft in 2011, 2012 and 2013 have been published online and can be obtained from the UK Airprox Board website at:<\/p>

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http://www.airproxboard.org.uk/default.aspx?catid=423&pagetype=90&pageid=5639<\/p>

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