Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many injured service personal required rehabilitation services in each armed service in each year since 2015; and how much his Department on rehabilitation of injured service personnel in each service in the same period.
The table below presents the number of UK Armed Forces personnel who have had at least one appointment at Primary Care Rehabilitation Facilities (PCRF), Regional Rehabilitation Units (RRU) and/or Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) in each year since 2015, broken down by service.
Year | Total | Navy | Army | RAF |
2015 | 58,144 | 9,450 | 36,807 | 11,824 |
2016 | 57,332 | 9,348 | 36,053 | 11,847 |
2017 | 55,605 | 9,523 | 34,653 | 11,346 |
2018 | 53,318 | 9,371 | 32,641 | 11,229 |
2019 | 52,981 | 9,678 | 31,775 | 11,446 |
2020 | 42,138 | 7,905 | 25,200 | 8,959 |
2021 | 45,526 | 8,640 | 27,524 | 9,281 |
2022 | 46,673 | 8,959 | 27,920 | 9,739 |
2023 | 45,137 | 8,696 | 26,828 | 9,572 |
2024 | 45,217 | 8,547 | 27,203 | 9,410 |
The table below presents the total spent on rehabilitation at Regional Rehabilitation Units (RRUs), Defence Primary Health Care Rehab Headquarters and the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) from the start of 2015 to 8 January 2025.The figures below do not include costs for Primary Care Rehab Facilities (PCRFs). PCRFs provide primary rehabilitation for Service Personnel who do not require referral into an RRU. PCRFs costs are embedded within Medical Centres and the costs cannot be extracted.
As rehabilitation is delivered in a tri-service environment, it is not possible to break this data down by Service.
Financial Year | Total £ |
2015-16 | 28,391,515 |
2016-17 | 22,895,461 |
2017-18 | 27,841,573 |
2018-19 | 31,852,392 |
2019-20 | 40,041,538 |
2020-21 | 32,473,582 |
2021-22 | 35,275,941 |
2022-23 | 39,037,736 |
2023-24 | 41,468,534 |
2024-25 | 30,885,020 |
Total | 332,536,267 |