Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Royal Navy (a) officers and (b) ratings in each branch, specialisation and arm were unavailable to be deployed in each year from 2005-06 to 2014-15.
Mark Lancaster
The information is not held in the format requested. However, the number and proportion of Naval Service officers and ratings in each branch who were categorised as non-deployable as at April of each year from 2010 is provided below. Information is not available prior to 2010.
All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy.
|
Branch |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
|
Officer |
Engineer |
10 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Logistics |
10 |
10 |
10 |
~ |
10 |
10 |
|
|
2% |
1% |
3% |
1% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Medical |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
10 |
|
|
1% |
2% |
2% |
3% |
4% |
3% |
||
|
Royal Marines |
~ |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
|
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
2% |
1% |
2% |
||
|
Warfare |
30 |
30 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
|
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
||
|
Rating |
Engineer |
300 |
320 |
280 |
350 |
270 |
280 |
|
1% |
3% |
3% |
4% |
3% |
2% |
||
|
Logistics |
170 |
170 |
160 |
170 |
100 |
110 |
|
|
2% |
5% |
6% |
6% |
4% |
5% |
||
|
Medical |
50 |
50 |
30 |
40 |
30 |
40 |
|
|
1% |
6% |
4% |
5% |
4% |
5% |
||
|
Royal Marines |
280 |
260 |
320 |
260 |
160 |
150 |
|
|
1% |
4% |
5% |
4% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Warfare |
260 |
290 |
280 |
290 |
150 |
150 |
|
|
4% |
4% |
4% |
5% |
3% |
3% |
All numbers are rounded to the nearest 5 with numbers that would be round
to 0 represented by ‘~’.
