{"value":{"id":1542012,"askingMemberId":400,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-11-16T00:00:00","uin":"86666","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Military Aid to Civilian Authority (MACA) requests have been (a) received and (b) approved by his Department, each month since January 2022.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4528,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-11-22T00:00:00","answerText":"

As of January of this year, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has received 85 requests for Military Aid to Civil Authorities (MACA), of which 63 met approval. These include requests in support of large-scale events such as the Commonwealth Games and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Several MACA requests received by the MOD were subsequently withdrawn.

The MACA framework is governed by long-standing principles. Military aid may be authorised where there is a definite need to ask and the tasks are clear; other options - including mutual aid and commercial alternatives - have been discounted, and the civil authority lacks the necessary capability to fulfil the task or it is prohibitively expensive to develop one.

The table below shows the number of MACA requests broken down by each month of this year.

MACA requests received by the Ministry of Defence in 2022

MACA requests approved by the Ministry of Defence in 2022

Month

Count of MACA

Month

Count of MACA

Jan

22

Jan

16

Feb

6

Feb

4

Mar

6

Mar

4

Apr

15

Apr

6

May

3

May

3

Jun

3

Jun

3

Jul

9

Jul

8

Aug

5

Aug

4

Sep

8

Sep

7

Oct

5

Oct

5

Nov

3

Nov

3

Grand Total

85

Grand Total

63

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