Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel reported non-freezing cold injuries in each year since 2018.
The number of UK Armed Forces personnel with a record for a Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI) in each year since 2018 is presented in the table below:
Year | Number |
2018 | 406 |
2019 | 334 |
2020 | 263 |
2021 | 354 |
2022 | 302 |
2023 | 421 |
The data is compiled from the following medical, safety and casualty reporting systems to provide the most complete picture possible:
These systems have been searched for coded information or text entries relating to NFCI: information entered as free text is not included.