Libya: Warships

(asked on 1st June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to make providing a ship of the Naval Service to operations off Libya a directed task.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 15th June 2015

There are no plans to make the Naval assets currently delivering search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean a part of the Committed Force.

The terminology 'directed task' was replaced at the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010 by 'Committed Force' as a new approach to describing the tasks required by Future Force 2020.

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