Armed Forces: Sexuality

(asked on 27th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have declared their sexual orientation to be (a) heterosexual, (b) homosexual, (c) bisexual or (d) other.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 6th July 2018

The declaration rate of sexual orientation in the Armed Forces is published in the Ministry of Defence's biannual Diversity Statistics publication. The latest edition is the 1 April 2018 publication, which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2018.

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