Armed Forces: Officers

(asked on 28th October 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Fuller Portrait
Richard Fuller
(Conservative - North Bedfordshire)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officers in the regular forces there have been at each rank between one star, NATO code OF-6, and five star, NATO code OF-10, in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 6th November 2014

The rank structure for Senior Officers in the UK Regular Forces at 1 April in each requested year is presented in the table. The NATO Rank of OF-10 (equivalent to an Army Field Marshal) is normally an honorary rank and is not included in official statistics.

NATO Rank Code

20102011201220132014
OF-999987
OF-83124252827
OF-7951021019795
OF6360343330303308

UK Regular Forces comprises trained and untrained personnel and excludes Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel and mobilised reservists.

NATO Rank Codes equivalence in UK Service Rank is as follows:

OF-9 General/Admiral/Air Chief Marshal; OF-8 Lieutenant General/Vice Admiral/Air Marshal; OF-7 Major General/Rear Admiral/Air Vice Marshal; OF-6 Brigadier/Commodore/Air Commodore.

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