Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian medical staff in each specialty have been deployed by Defence Medical Services to provide support to Operation Herrick in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost to the public purse was of each type of support in each such year.

The Ministry Of Defence has enabling contracts in place for contracted civilian medical support (nursing, medical support services and doctors). The total number of civilian medical personnel provided under such contracts in each of the last 10 years for Operation Herrick, broken down by their speciality and cost of each type of support, could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The following sums were spent under civilian medical support contracts since Financial Year 2009-2010.