Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans, of 13 December 2021, Official Report, column 814, on what date he plans to publish the Service Justice Statistics in his Department's Spring 2022 bulletin.

The official statistics for Sexual Offences in the Service Justice System will be published on 31 March 2022. This year, the statistics will include the offences of murder and manslaughter, and from 2023 will include information about domestic abuse and child sexual abuse.