Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel have been deployed to the Caribbean as a result of Hurricane Irma; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that deployment.

At the peak of the military response there were over 2,000 military personnel deployed to the Caribbean. The costs of the Defence response, elements of which are ongoing, are being compiled. We will recover the majority of our additional costs from the cross-Government fund established for the activity.