To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK (a) military and (b) civilian personnel have been deployed on UN peacekeeping operations in each of the last six years.
Answered on
1 March 2016
The tables below show the numbers of military and civilian personnel the UK has deployed to UN mandated peacekeeping and special political missions in the last six years, as at 26 February 2016:
Military Personnel
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
UNFICYP (Cyprus) | 271 | 273 | 270 | 274 | 274 | 274 |
MINUSMA (Mali) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
UNMISS (South Sudan) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |
MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo) | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
UNSOM (Somalia) | 2 | 2 | ||||
UNSMIL (Libya/Tunisia) | 1 | 1 | ||||
TOTAL | 276 | 280 | 278 | 285 | 287 | 287 |
Civilian Personnel
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
MONUSCO | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
UNMISS | 4 | 4 | 2 | |||
UNSMIL | 1 | 1 | ||||
MINUSTAH (Haiti) | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
UNMIL (Liberia) | 1 | 1 | ||||
TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
The civilian figures represent deployments from the Stabilisation Unit; other Government Departments also deploy civilians on UN Peacekeeping missions.
The figures do not include deployments to UN Agencies.