Armed Forces

(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many finance staff within (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Air Command (i) have (ii) are working towards and (iii) do not have a professional accountancy qualification.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 21st November 2017

Recording accountancy qualifications is not mandated, so data is only that which is recorded on the Ministry of Defence Human Resources system.

The information requested, as at 30 June 2017, is given below:

Single Service

Navy

Navy

Air

Total Number Qualified Accountants

20

20

15

Total Number Under Training

~

~

5

Do not have a professional accountancy qualification

115

320

145

In line with Defence Statistics policy, all figures have been rounded to the nearest 5. ~ represents less than 5.

Number of staff is headcount.

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