Afghanistan

(asked on 9th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK (a) military personnel and (b) civilians have been (i) killed and (ii) wounded in Afghanistan in the last 13 years.


Answered by
Mark Francois Portrait
Mark Francois
This question was answered on 8th January 2015

Between 7 October 2001 and 17 December 2014, 453 UK military personnel have died on operations in Afghanistan.

Information regarding those killed and wounded in Afghanistan is published on the Government's website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/op-herrick-casualty-and-fatality-tables-released-in-2014.

Nine UK civilians have been treated for injuries in Afghanistan or aeromedically evacuated by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). These are included within the published figures.

No MOD civilians have died on operations in Afghanistan.

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