Michael Fabricant – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Fabricant on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on delivering the UK’s contribution to NATO’s enhanced forward presence in eastern Europe; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon

The UK will be the Framework Nation for NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence in Estonia. Detailed planning is now underway with NATO and our Estonian hosts, and with the Governments of France and Denmark, who have indicated that they will deploy forces alongside us.

As agreed at the Warsaw Summit, our enhance Forward Presence forces will deploy in Spring 2017.