Navy: Engineers
(asked on 30th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many fully trained (a) Marine Engineers and (b) Weapons Engineers served in the Royal Navy in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 8th December 2017
The trained regular strength of Royal Navy Weapon Engineers and Marine Engineers, as at 1 April each year from 2012 to 2017 is given below:
|
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Weapon Engineer | Officer | 669 | 649 | 613 | 601 | 568 | 562 |
Rating | 2,643 | 2,430 | 2,303 | 2,246 | 2,979 | 3,132 | |
Marine Engineer | Officer | 557 | 544 | 521 | 507 | 480 | 483 |
Rating | 3,979 | 3,724 | 3,410 | 3,219 | 3,166 | 3,289 |
Notes:
- Communication and Information Specialists (CIS) were not counted in Engineer branches until August 2015. They are therefore included in the Weapon Engineering figures for April 2016 and April 2017 but not for earlier years.
- The Weapon Engineer figures for April 2016 and April 2017 include 1,005 and 1,227 CIS personnel respectively.