Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Staff
(asked on 22nd April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) ratings were employed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
Below are the requested figures of RFA personnel from 2010, broken down into Total Number, Officer and Rating figures.
Table 1. Royal Fleet Auxiliary Total Strength by Officer and Rating, as at 1 January 2010 to 1 January 2024
Date | Total | Officers | Ratings |
01 / 01 / 2010 | 2315 | 813 | 1502 |
01 / 01 / 2011 | 2314 | 787 | 1527 |
01 / 01 / 2012 | 1959 | 697 | 1262 |
01 / 01 / 2013 | 1887 | 667 | 1220 |
01 / 01 / 2014 | 1821 | 640 | 1181 |
01 / 01 / 2015 | 1850 | 662 | 1188 |
01 / 01 / 2016 | 1923 | 731 | 1192 |
01 / 01 / 2017 | 1938 | 726 | 1212 |
01 / 01 / 2018 | 1916 | 711 | 1205 |
01 / 01 / 2019 | 1887 | 685 | 1202 |
01 / 01 / 2020 | 1826 | 646 | 1180 |
01 / 01 / 2021 | 1828 | 657 | 1171 |
01 / 01 / 2022 | 1782 | 656 | 1126 |
01 / 01 / 2023 | 1736 | 637 | 1099 |
01 / 01 / 2024 | 1669 | 623 | 1046 |
Figures pre-2015 have been included, but this legacy data was obtained through a different data source and via a different system to the one currently used by Navy Analysis. As such, caution should be exercised when comparing figures from these respective periods as they may not be directly comparable.