Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel who have left the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force have left for the reason of (i) voluntary outflow, (ii) time expiry, (iii) redundancy and (iv) other wastage in each of the last five years.

Defence Statistics publish information on a regular basis showing military outflow. Statistics for the 12 months ending 31 March 2014 through to the 12 months ending 30 November 2016 are available in Excel Table 5d of the ‘UK Armed Forces Monthly Service Personnel Statistics December 2016’ which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-monthly-service-personnel-statistics-2016

Outflow figures from the 12 months ending 31 March 2012 to 31 March 2013 for the Armed Forces may be found in the UK Armed Forces Quarterly Personnel Reports in the tables entitled ‘Outflow from trained UK Regular Forces officers by exit reason’ and ‘Outflow from trained UK Regular Forces other ranks by exit reason’ at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-quarterly-manning-report-statistics-index