HC Deb 15 May 1996 vol 277 c442W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answers of 14 December 1995,Official Report, column 772 and Official Report, 21 March 1996, columns 286–87, how many redundancies there have been in each of the armed services in each financial year since 1992. [29334]

Mr. Soames

The numbers of redundancies in each of the armed services for each financial year since 1992–93 are as follows:

Year RN Army RAF Total
1992–93 400 3,338 219 3,957
1993–94 1,272 6,460 1,310 9,042
1994–95 2,440 7,015 1,639 11,094
1995–96 12,400 87 2,832 5,319
1 This RN figure covers financial years 1995–96 to 1996–97.