Armed Forces: Females
(asked on 20th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many female armed forces service personnel were (a) absent without leave (b) charged with desertion or (c) registered with military and civilian police as a missing person in each year since 2015.
The information available on female Armed Forces Service personnel who have been absent without leave (AWOL) or charged with desertion in each of the last five years is provided in the tables below.
The Ministry of Defence holds no information on missing persons in the United Kingdom as this is a matter for the civilian police forces. There are no records of any female Service personnel being reported to the Service Police as a missing person overseas in the last five years.
Year | Recorded AWOL |
2015 | 5 |
2016 | ~ |
2017 | 0 |
2018 | 5 |
2019 | ~ |
2020 (as at 21 July) | ~ |
Year | Charged with Desertion |
2015 | ~ |
2016 | ~ |
2017 | 0 |
2018 | 0 |
2019 | 0 |
2020 (as at 21 July) | 0 |
Notes:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5 to preserve anonymity. Where the number is less than 5, the symbol ~ has been used. All figures are single Service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.
The AWOL figures in the table are for the number of AWOL offences reported, not the
number of personnel who have gone AWOL. An individual may be recorded as AWOL more than once in this time period.
The figures for Recorded AWOL and Desertion charges have been compiled from different sources and have not been cross-checked.