Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many MACA requests his Department has received in response to extreme heat in each of the last three years; and of those how many his Department has accepted.

In the last three years, the Ministry of Defence has received two Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) requests relating to extreme heat. In May and June 2020, Defence was requested to support fighting wildfires in Wareham Forest and Hatfield Moor respectively. Both MACA requests were accepted but were subsequently cancelled by the requesting Department before they were activated.