Army: Young People

(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many junior soldiers in the army failed compulsory drug tests in each of the last five calendar years for which data is available.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 16th October 2018

The number of Junior Soldiers that failed a compulsory drug test in each of the last five calendar years is detailed below.

Year

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Tested Positive

-

-

10

10

20

Notes:

We have interpreted Junior Solider to mean those at Army Foundation College (Harrogate).

Please note that these figures are single service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.

Figures have been rounded to 10 to limit disclosure and ensure confidentiality; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

'-' denotes zero or rounded to zero

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