§ Mr. HuttonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many serving members of(a) the Royal Navy, (b) the RAF and (c) the Army were discharged from the services, having gone absent without leave, in each year since 1986.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonPersonnel are not usually discharged from the services for going absent without leave. Records of any such discharges are not maintained centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Details of personnel dismissed following court martial or summary proceedings for offences involving absence without leave, however, are as follows:
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonInformation in respect of reported cases of absence without leave is as follows:
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonMy Department was represented at official level at the seminar "The plutonium legacy: nuclear proliferation out of control?" held in Oxford on 21 April 1993.