France: Joint Exercises
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) UK and (b) French personnel took part in UK-French military exercises each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 15th March 2023
The information requested on the UK-French joint military exercises can be found in the table below:
Year | Exercises | Estimated number of UK personnel taking part in exercise activity | Estimated number of FR personnel taking part in exercise activity |
2010 | 7 | 29,000 | 800 |
2011 | 9 | 2,240 | 1,780 |
2012 | 9 | 2,640 | 2,900 |
2013 | 9 | 975 | 1,700 |
2014 | 17 | 4,410 | 2,750 |
2015 | 16 | 3,000 | 2,140 |
2016 | 16 | 5,058 | 1,280 |
2017 | 16 | 2,050 | 2,570 |
2018 | 15 | 2,920 | 3,401 |
2019 | 15 | 2,655 | 2,925 |
2020 | 8 | 451 | 4,408 |
2021 | 19 | 10,957 | 4,998 |
2022 | 14 | 3,741 | 1,280 |
Notes to table:
- Numbers of deployed Service personnel for both nations are approximations.
- The numbers reflect France-UK bilateral exercises only; there will have been additional CJEF and multilateral activity that is not accounted for in these numbers.