Armed Forces: Neurodiversity

(asked on 4th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people had a neurodiverse condition in each armed service in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 10th July 2023

Of the UK Armed Forces personnel who served between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022, 3,742 had a Read code for at least one of the following conditions entered into their electronic medical record: autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, asperger’s.

The table below provides a further breakdown for personnel by service and year:

UK armed forces personnel with a Read code for a neurodiverse condition by year and service:

1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022

All

2020

2021

2022

All

3,742

2,965

3,120

3,131

Royal Navy

570

414

446

490

Army

2,892

2,294

2,421

2,398

RAF

280

257

253

243

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