Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 4788, what assessment he has made of the reason why figures pertaining to the number of army and RAF visits to schools in the academic years from 2012 to 2015 are lower than figures for earlier years provided during the last Parliament by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 September 2015 to Question 8831.

Our assessment has shown that there is no single reason behind the reduction in the overall number of visits by either the Army or the RAF in recent years.