Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what impact the closure of the barracks in York will have on the role of Royal Saluting based in York; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of any impact on Royal saluting on York.
There are currently no plans to suspend the Royal Gun Salutes which take place at York Museum Gardens. This is a secondary saluting station which, like all saluting stations that are not on the Defence Estate, is utilised through an enabling agreement. Locations and categorisations are routinely reviewed and amended only with agreement from Her Majesty The Queen.