Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS trusts have requested support from the UK armed forces in every month of 2021 so far; which NHS trusts made such requests; and of those that made such requests, which ones were (1) successful, and (2) rejected.
The information on National Health Service trusts which have requested and received support from the armed forces is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of Military Aid to Civilian Authorities applications made by NHS England and the number of rejected applications in each month in 2021. Data for December 2021 is not yet available therefore we are unable to provide the information requested on the number of personnel currently deployed to all NHS trusts.
| Military Aid to Civilian Authorities applications from NHS England | Number of rejected applications |
January | 32 | 2 |
February | 14 | 0 |
March | 2 | 0 |
April | 1 | 0 |
May | 1 | 0 |
June | 1 | 0 |
July | 1 | 0 |
August | 3 | 0 |
September | 0 | 0 |
October | 0 | 0 |
November | 2 | 0 |