Unmanned Air Vehicles: Coronavirus

(asked on 19th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to roll-out the deployment of military fighter pilots to fly drones to deliver (a) PPE and (b) covid-19 test results to support the NHS during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 22nd October 2020

The Ministry of Defence currently has no plans for the deployment or use of UK Armed Forces pilots for the purposes of flying drones to support the NHS.

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