Armed Forces
(asked on 27th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will provide a table detailing the most recent data on UK Regular Forces by (a) Service and (b) Medical Deployability Standards.
This question was answered on 5th December 2024
The following table provides the Medical Deployability Standards for UK Armed Forces personnel, broken down by service as of the 1 October 2024:
| Medically Fully Deployable (MFD) | Medically Limited Deployable (MLD) | Medically Not Deployable (MND) |
Total | 99,560 | 14,350 | 13,522 |
Royal Navy | 22,838 | 2,363 | 2,922 |
Army | 55,005 | 9,456 | 6,879 |
RAF | 21,717 | 2,531 | 3,721 |