Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the training for casualty (a) notification and (b) visiting officers was last revised; whether a training needs analysis was conducted at the same time as that revision; and if he will make a statement.

The training requirements for both Notifying Officers and Visiting Officers are kept under constant review by all three Services. Both Notifying and Visiting Officers produce regular reports for the parent Service on the progress of their tasks. This is analysed by the single Services and any conclusions or adjustments are brought to a tri-Service Working Group for further review and, if necessary, implementation. A Training Needs Analysis was conducted in early 2017 with an updated set of Terms of Reference for the Notifying and Visiting Officers Course being agreed in April 2017.