HC Deb 12 March 1997 vol 292 c234W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many compulsory redundancies there have been in each of the three services in each of the last seven years. [19754]

Mr. Soames

The number of redundancies in each of the armed services for each financial year since 1990–91 are as follows:

Year RN Army RAF Total
1990–91 0 0 0 0
1991–92 0 0 0 0
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
1995–96 520 87 2,832 3,439
1996–97 1,880 183 15,414 7,477
1 This is a provisional figure.