Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to gather figures on the total and average sum paid out in redundancy packages for each branch of the armed services (a) since 2010 and (b) in future years.

Expenditure on redundancy payments is not recorded separately by the single Services. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) does record the total expenditure incurred by civilian and Armed Forces redundancy payments collectively. These are reported each year in the MOD's Annual Report and Accounts.

We do not gather details of the average redundancy payment.