Asked by: Tobias Ellwood (Conservative - Bournemouth East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service members have passed the new Ranger Regiment cadre course as on 8 July 2022.
Answered by James Heappey
I am withholding the number of Service personnel who have completed the Ranger Assessment Cadre and Ranger Course, as disclosure would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness, or security of the Ranger Regiment and therefore the British Armed Forces.
Jul. 20 2023
Source Page: Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023Found: training with 19 countries and around 100 aircraft and enhancing international relationships. 1 Regiment
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Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the training course for the Ranger Regiment has been written.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The training course for the Ranger Regiment has been written and training has commenced. The content will be refined and improved as the Ranger capability develops.
Written Evidence Aug. 11 2022
Inquiry: Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to realityFound: Regiment as part of the strategy of persistent engagement.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to update the House if the Ranger Regiment is deployed.
Answered by James Heappey
The Ranger Regiment is part of the newly established Army Special Operations Brigade. Its work will include deploying alongside partner forces around the world to counter Violent Extremist Organisations and hostile state threats.
The MOD is committed to being open and transparent to Parliament. However in certain circumstances operational security will prevent confirmation or otherwise of operational activity.
As with other military deployments, it is not the MOD’s intention to update the house each time the Ranger Regiment is deployed, unless there is a specific need and public interest in doing so.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his Department's policy that deployments by the Ranger Regiment be (a) made public and (b) subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
Answered by James Heappey
The Ranger Regiment is part of the newly established Army Special Operations Brigade. Its work will include deploying alongside partner forces around the world to counter Violent Extremist Organisations and hostile state threats.
The MOD is committed to being open and transparent to Parliament. However in certain circumstances operational security will prevent confirmation or otherwise of operational activity.
As with other military deployments, it is not the MOD’s intention to update the house each time the Ranger Regiment is deployed, unless there is a specific need and public interest in doing so.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Ranger regiment has been deployed to Ukraine since Russia's invasion of that country in February 2022.
Answered by James Heappey
As the Secretary of State for Defence said in his statement of 17 January 2022, we deployed UK personnel, including from the Ranger Regiment, to Ukraine to provide training on anti-tank weapons before the Russian invasion. They left Ukraine in early February after delivering this training.
For operational reasons, we will not comment on the exact number of UK military personnel in Ukraine or their whereabouts.
Oral Evidence Nov. 01 2022
Inquiry: Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to realityFound: That was my second determination.The reorganisation of the Army, including the creation of the Ranger
Jun. 01 2022
Source Page: The Military division of The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2022Found: Colonel Robert Matthew William BURLEY (deceased) Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Hugh BUXTON, Royal Regiment