Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of deploying of military personnel to assist the North East Ambulance Service during the covid-19 outbreak.

Since 22 March 2020 the estimated cost of assisting North East Coast Ambulance Service in support of Op RESCRIPT (MoD's COVID-19 response) is £0. This does not mean that no support was given to North East Coast Ambulance Service by the Ministry of Defence, but if it was provided it was at a national instead of regional level.