Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many internal formal complaints have been recorded by each of the armed forces in each of the last three years.

Information on the numbers of Service complaints in calendar years 2014 and 2015 is available in the annual reports of, respectively, the Service Complaints Commissioner and the Service Complaints Ombudsman. These publications can be found at the following address:

http://www.servicecomplaintsombudsman.org.uk/service-complaints-ombudsman/publications-and-reports/annual-reports/

Figures for 2016 are currently being compiled for inclusion in the Service Complaints Ombudsman's annual report 2016.