Anne-Marie Trevelyan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne-Marie Trevelyan on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have been (a) killed and (b) injured as a result of accidents during exercises at the army training ground at Otterburn in each of the last 10 years.

Mark Lancaster

In the period 1 January 2006 to 4 September 2016, there has been one death whilst on training or exercise at Otterburn training area. The death occurred in 2016.

The table below shows the recorded number of personnel injured on training or exercise at Otterburn in the period 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2016 reported through the MOD Health and Safety and Casualty Notification process. These totals may not include all injuries, as some minor injuries may have been treated immediately and not reported. Reporting of injuries is improving, and usage of the training area has increased since 2015.

Source: Notification of Casualties (NOTICAS); MOD Health and Safety databases

Footnotes:

1.Personnel includes Regular personnel, Reservist Personnel, Cadets and Civilians.

2.Data only available between 1 April 2016 to 30 June 2016.

Data presented as "~" has been suppressed in accordance with Defence Statistics rounding policy.