PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Rescue Services: Mediterranean Sea (9 March 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilians rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the Royal Navy in the last two years requested medical evacuation; and to what locations such people were transported for treatment.

Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)

No civilians rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the Royal Navy in the last two years were medically evacuated. Where Royal Navy vessels rescued migrants, medical treatment was administered on board if required. All those rescued were disembarked at agreed ports of safety in Italy.

Answered by:
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)
14 March 2016