§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of Her Majesty's armed forces have been convicted and sentenced in a criminal court in each of the last 10 years; how many have consequently been dismissed for misconduct; how many have remained in the armed forces under Queen's Regulations provision to take exceptional reasons into account; and if he will list the conviction and length of sentence in each case where exceptional reasons were taken into account and the nature of the exceptional reason cited. [75019]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonThe information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, information relating to convictions of Service personnel by criminal courts will in future be held centrally.