Rescue Services: Northern Ireland
(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 2 November (HL2687), how many times over the past 12 months Maritime and Coastguard Agency helicopters have flown from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to provide assistance to injured persons.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th November 2016
In the last 12 months, 1 November 2015 to 31 October 2016, Maritime and Coastguard Agency search and rescue helicopters were tasked 11 times to locations in Northern Ireland. Assistance was given to four injured people.