Armed Forces: Death
(asked on 4th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Service Inquires conducted after a death during a (a) training exercise and (b) selection event included heat illness as a factor in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014, (iv) 2015, (v) 2016 and (vi) 2017.
This question was answered on 15th January 2019
Between 2012-2017 only one Service Inquiry was conducted, in 2015, where heat illness was specifically found to be a causal or contributory factor following a military exercise.