Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2019 to Question 239921 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, when he plans to write to the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire with the information on the number of recruitment applications declined on medical grounds.

I apologise to the hon. Member for the time taken to respond to his Question 239921.

The table below shows how many recruitment applications for the Regular Armed Forces were declined after being classified Permanently Medically Unfit in the last five financial years.

These figures are single service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.

Although the medical rejection figures have risen each year, the amount of applications over the five-year period has also increased significantly.