France: Joint Exercises

(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK-French joint military exercises took place each year since 2010.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 15th March 2023

The information requested on the UK-French joint military exercises can be found in the table below:

Year

Exercises

Estimated number of UK personnel taking part in exercise activity

Estimated number of FR personnel taking part in exercise activity

2010

7

29,000

800

2011

9

2,240

1,780

2012

9

2,640

2,900

2013

9

975

1,700

2014

17

4,410

2,750

2015

16

3,000

2,140

2016

16

5,058

1,280

2017

16

2,050

2,570

2018

15

2,920

3,401

2019

15

2,655

2,925

2020

8

451

4,408

2021

19

10,957

4,998

2022

14

3,741

1,280

Notes to table:

  1. Numbers of deployed Service personnel for both nations are approximations.

  1. The numbers reflect France-UK bilateral exercises only; there will have been additional CJEF and multilateral activity that is not accounted for in these numbers.

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