Speeches

Ian Mearns – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Mearns on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s future requirement for (a) officer cadets and (b) ratings.

Penny Mordaunt

Under current planning assumptions the Royal Fleet Auxiliary expects to recruit the following number of Officer Cadets and Apprentice Ratings in each of the next five years:

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

Cadet

32

32

32

32

32

Apprentice

128

128

117

117

93