HC Deb 10 March 1980 vol 980 cc465-6W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many people joined the Royal Navy in each year from 1974; and how many officers resigned their commissions in each of those years; and how many other ranks left voluntarily before the completion of their engagements.

Mr. Speed

The numbers of officers and ratings joining the Royal Navy during the financial years from 1974–75 onwards are as follows:

1974–75 7,203
1975–76 7,732
1976–77 7,238
1977–78 6,269
1978–79 5,978
1 April 1979 to 31 Jan. 1980 6,569

The numbers of trained officers who left the Royal Navy on premature voluntary retirement and of trained ratings who left before the expiry of their engagements in each of the financial years since 1974 are as follows:

Officers Ratings
1974–75 223 2,255
1975–76 211 1,685
1976–77 208 1,454
1977–78 240 1,412
1978–79 237 3,491
1979–80* 225 3,129
* To end of January.

The numbers of officers and men leaving in this way depends mainly on applications made some 15 to 18 months previously.

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many officers have resigned their commissions and how many ratings have left voluntarily before completion of their engagements from the Royal Navy since May 1979 to the latest month for which figures are available.

Mr. Speed

196 trained officers have left the Royal Navy on premature voluntary retirement during the period May 1979 to the end of January 1980; 2,809 trained ratings have left the Royal Navy before the expiry of their engagements during the same period. The number of officers and men actually leaving the Royal Navy depends mainly on applications made some 15 to 18 months previously.

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many people have joined the Royal Navy since May 1979 to the latest month for which figures are available.

Mr. Speed

7,133 officers and ratings entered the Royal Navy between the beginining of May 1979 and the end of February 1980.

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