Navy: Discharges

(asked on 20th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel left the Royal Navy in each year from 2017 to date.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 27th June 2022

The information requested is provided in the following table:

Financial Year

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

RN/RM total outflow

3,003

3,088

3,092

3,322

2,868

3,518

Trained

2,252

2,428

2,460

2,390

1,942

2,494

Untrained

751

660

632

932

926

1,024

Officer

429

460

440

433

359

414

Trained

364

390

355

352

288

360

Untrained

65

70

85

81

71

54

Other Ranks

2,574

2,628

2,652

2,889

2,509

3,104

Trained

1,888

2,038

2,105

2,038

1,654

2,134

Untrained

686

590

547

851

855

970

1. Figures show outflow from UK Regular Forces, both trained and untrained, including personnel leaving the Services, deaths and recalled reservists on release. They do not include promotion from Ranks to Officers or flows between Services.

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