Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British servicemen and women are based on British military bases abroad.
Penny Mordaunt
There are 9,360 British Service personnel permanently based on British military bases abroad. This figure includes those based in Cyprus, Gibraltar, the South Atlantic Islands, Diego Garcia, Germany, Canada, Kenya, Brunei, Nepal and Belize. This figure represents the number of Service personnel who are stationed at that location. It may differ from the actual number of people working on the base at the time, for example due to deployments. The breakdown of these figures into country and service is shown below; where countries have five or less personnel, these are rounded to zero and the country does not appear in the table. The Ministry of Defence regularly publishes the location figures for both military and civilian personnel, which can be accessed on the GOV.UK website at:
https//www.gov.uk/government/statistics/location-of-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-2015
|
UK Base Country |
Navy |
Army |
RAF |
TOTAL |
|
Germany |
20 |
5,900 |
130 |
6,050 |
|
Canada |
10 |
360 |
20 |
390 |
|
Kenya |
0 |
210 |
10 |
220 |
|
Brunei |
10 |
130 |
10 |
150 |
|
Nepal |
0 |
20 |
0 |
20 |
|
Cyprus |
20 |
1,480 |
730 |
2,230 |
|
Gibraltar |
110 |
30 |
30 |
170 |
|
South Atlantic Islands |
10 |
50 |
20 |
80 |
|
Diego Garcia |
40 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
|
Belize |
0 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
|
TOTAL |
220 |
8,190 |
950 |
9,360 |
(Location of UK regular service and civilian personnel quarterly statistics- 1 October 2015)
