Deployment to Mali

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:34 pm on 29 January 2013.

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Photo of Bob Stewart Bob Stewart Conservative, Beckenham 12:34, 29 January 2013

I support the deployment of a Sentinel R1, but may I urge my right hon. Friend to be slightly careful about the use of language? We have already deployed a C-17 to Bamako, and that C-17 has a section of the RAF Regiment within it—for force protection. Force protection personnel are combat troops. They may not be used in combat, but they are combat troops.