Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish all current standing Royal Navy deployments.

The Royal Navy continues to meet all their standing commitments including: Continuous at Sea Deterrent; Fleet Ready Escort; Towed Array Patrol Ship; marine enforcement; mine countermeasures support; Atlantic Patrol Tasking North and South; Gibraltar Squadron; operations East of Suez; contributing to the Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) and Standing NATO Naval Forces; supporting EU and NATO counter-migration operations in the Mediterranean. In addition to these, HMS SUTHERLAND is currently conducting operations and exercises in Australia and HMS ARGYLL will deploy to Asia Pacific later this year.