Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average time taken was to conclude an internal formal complaint by each of the armed forces in each of the last three years.
The following table provides the average number of weeks to conclude a Service complaint from the date of submission, in each year since 2014.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Naval Service | 20.0 | 15.0 | 17.0 |
Army | 32.4 | 25.1 | 14.0 |
Royal Air Force | 14.9 | 12.9 | 15.3 |