Warships
(asked on 12th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many suitably qualified and experienced personnel positions are (a) required and (b) vacant in (i) Type 23 and (ii) Type 45 ship crews.
The information requested, as at 12 March 2015, is shown in the following table:
Required Positions | Vacant Positions | |
Type 23 | 1,990 | 180 |
Type 45 | 1,150 | 75 |
Note: All figures are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy. All numbers over 100 are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias. Numbers under 100 are rounded to the nearest 5. | ||
None of the existing vacancies is in a post categorised as safety critical and no ship would go to sea without the minimum required complement of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.