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Written Question
Rescue Services: Northern Ireland
Wednesday 16th November 2016

Asked by: Lord Rogan (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 2 November (HL2687), how many times over the past 12 months Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopters have flown from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to provide assistance to injured persons.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

In the last 12 months, 1 November 2015 to 31 October 2016, Maritime and Coastguard Agency search and rescue helicopters were tasked 11 times to locations in Northern Ireland. Assistance was given to four injured people.

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