Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many merchant seafarers employed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have retired in each year since 2008-09.
There is no retirement age for Royal Fleet Auxiliary employees. I can provide the following numbers of those personnel who were aged 60 or Over on final date of service:
2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
20 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 35 | 30 |
All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy.