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.
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.