Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military and aviation personnel worked in his Department in each of the last five years.

Information on the strength of UK Armed Forces is published in the Ministry of Defence's Quarterly Personnel Report (QPR). The latest issue, published on 12 February 2015, includes information as at 1 January 2015; Table 5a provides a breakdown by Service as at 1 April in each year since 2011 and also includes data from 1 October 2014 and 1 January 2015. The QPR can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/402633/quarterly_personnel_report_jan15.pdf