Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel were waiting for medical treatment on 15 April in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel are waiting for medical treatment.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Royal Navy spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Royal Navy (RN) has spent the following overall sums on marketing with above the line media and social media platforms since Financial Year 2017-18:
Financial Year |
| Social Media | Media (Excluding Social) |
2017-18 |
| £423,990 | £7,697,349 |
2018-19 |
| £784,161 | £14,528,656 |
2019-20 |
| £1,626,458 | £15,699,198 |
2020-21 |
| £1,824,316 | £13,428,792 |
2021-22 |
| £1,615,263 | £14,037,031 |
2022-23 |
| £1,682,000 | £14,025,000 |
2023-24 |
| £2,593,000 | £16,191,000 |
The breakdown of spend by individual platform is commercially sensitive and it would therefore be inappropriate to provide this level of detail.
In accordance with advice from the Government Communication Service, the RN does not currently use the TikTok platform.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2024 to Question 12520 on Aircraft Carriers, when the UK Carrier Strike Group with a wholly sovereign air wing and escort fleet last sailed on (a) exercise and (b) deployment.
Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Sovereign aircraft, escorts and support ships have formed the core of the UK Carrier Strike Group (UKCSG), but each deployment has also involved contributions from partner nations. All UKCSG deployments have involved participation in a range of multinational operations and exercises.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the RAF spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question has been interpreted as spend on advertising for Recruitment. With regards to the figures for 2017, I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Spend £ | 742,162 | 9,453,479 | 8,334,191 | 2,820,455 | 8,541,160 | 11,240,860 | 2,209,334. |
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Facebook/Inst | £52,735 | £887,324 | £874,933 | £310,407 | £158,550 | £610,013 | £179,662 |
SnapChat |
| £63,001 | £178,558 | £6,663 | £542,277 | £654,943 | £175,206 |
|
| £48,384 | £11,152 | £83,269 | £4,992 |
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Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Army spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The table shows the cost of the Army’s recruitment advertising costs by financial year.
Media Name | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2202-23 |
£231,425 | £576,454 | £494,971 | £532,996.82 | £606,351 | |
Snapchat | £79,903 | £130,020 | £204,345 | £388,521.19 | £479,342.14 |
£55,431 | £203,164 | £129,277 | £196,164.98 | £90,000 | |
Display | £1,292,885 | £3,506,037 | £3,804,808 | £3,500,017 | £2,309,891 |
Out of Home | £287,000 | £451,614 | £190,000 | £200,000 | £150,000 |
Radio | £388,980 | £1,813,738 | £859,134 | £1,045,000 | £964,998 |
Paid Search | £209,532 | £699,264 | £1,153,600 | £1,355,525 | £1,165,874.32 |
TV | £1,992,500 | £3,076,945 | £4,429,580 | £2,524,105 | £3,594,987 |
Please note the following notes/caveats:
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 13532 on Armed Forces: Parachuting, if he will break down the data provided by (a) broken bones, (b) respiratory illness, (c) punctured lungs, (d) other injury and (e) death.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
From 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2023, a total of 527 Service personnel sustained injuries from parachuting. Of these:
There was one fatality as a result of parachuting in 2021.
This information was drawn from a number of databases and relied on manual data extraction based on specific search terms.
The type of injury was identified from a number of different variables in the data including the free text narrative of the description of the incident. The MOD Health and Safety systems are not medical databases and do not contain clinical diagnoses. The databases are also live and therefore information is subject to change or revisions. As a result, there is a risk of inconsistency with the data, and the returns may not be exhaustive.
Any records that did not contain one of the search terms used has been categorised as ‘other’. These are reported conditions including but not limited to sprains, pain, bruising and lacerations.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people suffered (a) death and (b) injury on his Departments firing ranges in each year since 2018.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Since 2018, there have been two fatalities involving UK Armed Forces personnel on firing ranges. These occurred in 2018 and 2021.
During the same period 1,429 people sustained injuries on firing ranges. The table below provides a breakdown of injuries by year between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2023:
Table 1: Number of people injured at firing ranges broken down by year.
'Table 1 lists all injuries linked to firing range activities. These injuries range from superficial e.g. abrasions, lacerations, physical strains, falls to more severe e.g. gunshot wounds, hearing loss.'
Calendar Year | Total |
All | 1,429 |
2018 | 158 |
2019 | 160 |
2020 | 168 |
2021 | 243 |
2022[1] | 332 |
2023 | 368 |
[1] The annual increases in 2022 and 2023 may be due to improved reporting levels due to a new reporting system being introduced.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel reported non-freezing cold injuries in each year since 2018.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The number of UK Armed Forces personnel with a record for a Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI) in each year since 2018 is presented in the table below:
Year | Number |
2018 | 406 |
2019 | 334 |
2020 | 263 |
2021 | 354 |
2022 | 302 |
2023 | 421 |
The data is compiled from the following medical, safety and casualty reporting systems to provide the most complete picture possible:
These systems have been searched for coded information or text entries relating to NFCI: information entered as free text is not included.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average vehicle availability rate was for (a) Chinook, (b) Wildcat Mk1, (c) Wildcat Mk2 and (d) Merlin HM2 in each year since 2018.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 December 2023 to Question 6474 to the hon. Member for Easington (Mr Grahame Morris).