United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations
(asked on 23rd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK (a) military and (b) civilian personnel are deployed on UN peacekeeping operations in each operational theatre.
The tables below show the numbers of military and civilian personnel the UK has deployed to UN mandated peacekeeping and special political missions in the last six years, as at 26 February 2016:
Military Personnel
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
UNFICYP (Cyprus) | 271 | 273 | 270 | 274 | 274 | 274 |
MINUSMA (Mali) |
|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
UNMISS (South Sudan) |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
UNSOM (Somalia) |
|
|
|
| 2 | 2 |
UNSMIL (Libya/Tunisia) |
|
|
|
| 1 | 1 |
TOTAL | 276 | 280 | 278 | 285 | 287 | 287 |
Civilian Personnel
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
MONUSCO | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
|
UNMISS |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | ||
UNSMIL |
|
|
|
| 1 | 1 |
MINUSTAH (Haiti) |
|
|
| 3 | 3 | 3 |
UNMIL (Liberia) |
|
|
|
| 1 | 1 |
TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
The civilian figures represent deployments from the Stabilisation Unit; other Government Departments also deploy civilians on UN Peacekeeping missions.
The figures do not include deployments to UN Agencies.