Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a weekly breakdown of (a) the Military Aid to Civilian Authorities (MACA) requests undertaken by his Department, (b) the details of each MACA request, (c) how many personnel are deployed on each MACA request and (d) how many personnel are on standby to respond to MACA requests.

During the pandemic, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence offered regular updates to the House, given the scale of the military response and the national emergency we were facing. That is not, however, the normal process, and has been discontinued in the conclusion of Operation RESCRIPT. The Ministry of Defence’s Annual Report and Accounts provide an annual summary of the Military Aid to Civilian Authorities requests received by the Department.