Armed Forces: Firearms
(asked on 16th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) SA80 A3 assault rifles and (b) Glock General Service Pistols were in the Ministry of Defence inventory in each year since 2010.
The SA80 A3 was first produced in 2017, therefore numbers were not recorded in service before 2017, the information provided in the table below shows the number of SA80A3 held on the Current Assets Register each year since 2017.
SA80 A3 NSN 1005991552342 |
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Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
Total | 402 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 4,985 | 15,094 | 17,908 | 24,918 | ||||
The equivalent data for the Glock General Service Pistol L131A1 could only be retrieved at disproportionate cost.