Speeches

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 ‘~’.