Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Marines personnel are employed in the (a) armoured support, (b) armourer, (c) assault engineer, (d) clerk, (e) combat intelligence, (f) driver, (g) drill instructor, (h) general duties, (i) heavy weapons (air defence), (j) heavy weapons (anti-tank), (k) heavy weapons (mortars), (l) landing craft, (m) metalsmith, (n) mountain leader, (o) physical training instructor, (p) platoon weapons (sniper), (q) platoon weapons (machine gunner), (r) Royal Marines aircrewman, (s) Royal Marines communications technician, (t) Royal Marines information systems (RMIS, (u) Royal Marines medical assistant (RMMA), (v) Royal Marines Police, (w) signaller, (x) special forces communicator (SFC), (y) stores accountant, (z) telecommunications technician, (aa) vehicle mechanic (ab) artificer telecommunications, (ac) artificer vehicles, (ad) foreman of signals and (ae) yeoman of signals specialist roles.

I am witholding information on the number of personnel in each specific specialisation within the Royal Marines as to release this would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.

More general monthly personnel statistics for the Trained Strength Regular Royal Marines are published by Defence Statistics and as at 1 September 2017 are:

All totals are rounded as a means of disclosure control and to improve the clarity of outputs, therefore totals may not equal the sum of their parts.