Armed Forces: Discharges

(asked on 23rd February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 12 March 2021 to Question 165547 on Armed Forces: Discharges, what those figures were in the period between 2019 and 2022.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 28th February 2023

The number of non-UK1 nationality2 personnel, who outflowed3 from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2022, who served from 4 to 12 years4,5,6,7 is shown in the table below. Information for the period 1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020 was provided in the previous PQ response but is included for ease of reference.

4 Years

5 Years

6 Years

7 Years

8 Years

9 Years

10 Years

11 Years

12 Years

1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020

10

10

40

30

20

20

30

20

20

1 April 2020 - 31 March 2021

~

~

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

1 April 2021 – 31 March 2022

20

10

10

10

20

20

~

20

20

Notes/Caveats:

  1. The question has been interpreted as relating to removal of visa fees for non-UK Service Personnel to settle in the UK on discharge. Therefore, Non-UK Personnel are defined as Commonwealth UK Regular Personnel, Gurkhas and those Nepalese who have transferred out of the Brigade of Gurkhas to serve in the wider Armed Forces. This will differ from the Biannual Diversity Statistics, as it includes Gurkha personnel, and not the full list of Other Foreign Regulars.
  2. Nationality on outflow as recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system. This is not where they were recruited from, nor does it filter for non-UK born personnel.
  3. Outflow is derived by month-on-month comparisons of strength. These figures include outflow to specific populations. Personnel flowing from the Trained to the Untrained Strengths are not captured in this table.
  4. Length of service (LoS) has been calculated using entry date. There are known problems with the entry date information extracted from Joint Personnel Administration (JPA). If personnel have transferred from Service to another service, have served under an alternative assignment type (e.g. Reserve Forces), are re-entrants or have transferred from Other Ranks to Officers, their entry date may correspond to any of these events. The resulting LoS may reflect their current period of service, include previous service, or it may be the time that has elapsed since they first joined the Armed Forces, irrespective of any break in service. It will invariably include time spent on untrained strength. Length of Service (Years) is calculated as full years of service completed on outflow.
  5. LoS on outflow can be affected by the relative size of intake in previous years, particularly in small populations.
  6. Figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards. Figures between 1 and 5 inclusive are represented by '~' to prevent possible disclosure, and zero represented by "-".
  7. This data is for the most recent financial years of 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2021 and 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
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