Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many coastguards have left the service since the Coastguard Reform programme began; and how many entrants to the Coastguard service there have been in that period.
The number and grade of Coastguards who have left the service since the Coastguard Reform Programme began in January 2012 is 234. This is shown below, by grade and reason for leaving, where numbers are five and greater. The number of new entrants to the Coastguard service in that same period is 156. This is shown below by grade.
Leavers
Grade | Retirement | Resignation | Voluntary Redundancy | Other |
Administrative Assistant | 6 | 26 | 25 | 7 |
Administrative Officer | 11 | 58 | 35 | 8 |
Executive Officer | 14 | 9 | 15 | # |
Higher Executive Officer | # | 5 | # | # |
Senior Executive Officer | # | # | # | # |
Grade 7 | # | # | # | # |
# Numbers less than five are subject to data protection.
New Entrants
Grade | Starters |
Administrative Assistant | 29 |
Administrative Officer | 119* |
Executive Officer | 8 |
Total | 156 |
* This figure includes 73 Maritime Operations Officers for the new national network who have been recruited since January 2014