Navy: Officers

(asked on 23rd January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2024 to Question 8666 on Navy: Officers, how many personnel in the Royal Navy held the rank of (a) Vice Admiral, (b) Rear Admiral and (c) Admiral in (i) 2022, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2019 and (iv) 2018.


Answered by
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Andrew Murrison
This question was answered on 26th January 2024

The following figures show Royal Navy personnel in the rank of (a) Vice Admiral, (b) Rear Admiral and (c) Admiral in (i) 2022, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2019 and (iv) 2018.

Regular Royal Navy and Royal Marines at Paid Ranks of OF7-OF9, as at 1 Apr 2018 - 2022.

01-April-2018

01-April-2019

01-April-2020

01-April-2021

01-April-2022

OF9 - Admiral / General

2

2

2

2

3

OF8 - Vice Admiral / Lt-General

8

8

7

8

9

OF7 - Rear Admiral / Major-General

28

32

32

27

28

Source: Analysis (Navy)

1. Within the OF9 group there may be personnel ranked as OF10 at certain time points, to keep in line with published statistics they have been grouped.

2. Data is provided for Regular personnel, Full Time Reservists and Mobilised Reservists have been excluded.

These figures are taken from the Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics available at the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2023

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