Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) civil servants of his Department and (b) armed forces personnel have been seconded to the UN in each of the last five years.

It is not possible to specify how many civil servants from the Department have taken up secondments at the UN as this information is not held centrally.

The number of Armed Forces personnel seconded are as follows: three in 2018; five in 2017; five in 2016; three in 2015 and three in 2014.