Armed Forces: Death

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed service personnel who have served in the armed forces since 2001 have died as a result of (a) suicide and (b) another cause of death.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 1st February 2022

Statistical information for suicide in the Armed Forces, from 1984 to present, is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/972333/20210325_UK_AF_Suicide_National_Statistic_Accessible_Web_ready_2021_O.pdf

Statistical information and cause of deaths in Service in general is available at the following link from 2010 to present, this includes the period 2001-2010 in the 2010 report: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-deaths-in-service-statistics-index

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