Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2016 to Question 28161, how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel are deployed to which UN agencies.

As at 17 March 2016, there are 16 serving military and six civilian women deployed on UN missions. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not hold the historic information sought as military personnel deployed on operations are not recorded by gender.

The answer to Question 28161 did not include personnel deployed by other Government departments and was limited to those provided only by the MOD and the Stabilisation Unit. Details of civilian personnel deployed to the UN by other departments are not centrally held, nor does the MOD hold centralised records of Government employees working with UN agencies.