Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flying instructors has the RAF had in each year since 2010.

The table below shows the number of Qualified Flying Instructors and Qualified Helicopter Instructors at the rank of Flight Lieutenant and Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force in each year since 2010.

These figures include all personnel who held an instructional qualification at the time. Most would have been in student facing instructional roles, but there may have been a small number of individuals that held an instructional qualification while in a non-instructional role, such as staff roles or front-line flying roles.