Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the trained strength of the Royal Navy is by (a) officers and (b) non-commissioned ranks.

The trained strength of the Royal Navy by officers and non-commissioned ranks as of 1 February 2016 is as follows.

All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy; therefore totals may not equal the sum of their parts. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias.

These figures were published on 10 March 2016 in the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Situation Report at: www.gov.uk