Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Met Office staff are on secondment to the armed forces.

At present there are 4 Met Office staff on secondment to Government departments and agencies and 10 seconded to other publicly-funded bodies.

No Met Office staff are on secondment to the armed forces. At present 52 staff are members of the Mobile Met Unit, a sponsored RAF reserve unit of meteorological specialists. There are 192 Met Office staff based at military sites in the UK and overseas.