Pictured are ambulances being driven by military personnel at Wellington Barracks today, 21/12/22. Service personnel begin to cover ambulance driving duties as a part of their commitment to provide Military Aid to Civil Authorities. Military Aid to Civil Authorities aka MACA is the help and support provided by the Armed Forces to authorities in the UK, like the Police, NHS, or local authorities. The government can call on the military to assist at times of need, to share the burden on civil organisations. 600 military personnel from across the three single services have received training to provide non-clinical support to hospital trusts across England in the form of ambulance driving. Support is being provided to London Ambulance Service, Northwest Ambulance Service, Southeast Coast Ambulance Service, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and North East Ambulance Service. A further 150 personnel will directly support those 600 personnel with logistical planning.
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LONDON: More than 1,000 personnel have been trained in recent weeks to provide cover for ambulance trusts, Border Force, and fire and rescue services.
Members of the UK Armed Forces involved in providing cover for public services during planned industrial action throughout the festive period will receive additional payment, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced.
More than 1,000 personnel from across the Navy, Army, and RAF have received training in recent weeks to cover a number of roles during planned industrial action, including passport-checking at the UK border and ambulance driving.
The first industrial action cover took place on Wednesday (21 December) as 600 personnel stepped in to drive ambulances and provide direct support to NHS trusts in England. Further cover will begin today (23 December) as 625 personnel are deployed to ensure the security of the UK border.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said:
I am incredibly grateful for the sacrifices made this winter by members of our Armed Forces, who are giving up their time to keep our essential services running and to bolster UK resilience.
While the unions continue to hold our public services to ransom, it is only appropriate our people are compensated for having to go above and beyond their usual tasks at short notice.
The payments will be issued for each day personnel are training for, or engaged in, industrial action cover during the festive period, following acceptance of Military Aid to Civilian Authority (MACA) requests.
Payments will be made to personnel for every day they spend training or deployed throughout the period of 19 December to 2 January inclusive. Personnel will receive the payments in their monthly salary, with the net amount calculated as £20 for each day of cover, after tax. This will be funded from the Ministry of Defence’s existing budget.
MACA is a long-standing and established process which allows the specialist capabilities of the UK Armed Forces to be utilised to support civil authorities responding to a domestic emergency.
A wider review of how MACA taskings are calculated and charged across Government will take place in early 2023.
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