Submarines: Staff

(asked on 12th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) additional to their wages and (b) deployment allowances that were made to the crew of submarines providing the continual at sea deterrent in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 22nd April 2024

The tables below provide the data requested.

Table A – Cost for Submariner Recruitment & Retention Pay [Paid Above Basic Salary]

Financial Year

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

Recruitment & Retention Pay [Submariner]

£5,829,718

£6,020,589

£5,899,253

£6,338,728

£6,750,011

Table B – Total Costs of Local Oversea Allowance (LOA) and Longer Separation Allowances (LSA)

Financial Year

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

Total

£1,136,491

£1,682,940

£1,105,415

£1,396,261

£2,149,526

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