Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gurkhas (a) are serving during the withdrawal of British armed forces from Afghanistan and (b) have served in that country since 2001.
No Gurkha units were deployed to Afghanistan to support Operation PITTING. At least 2,890 Gurkhas deployed to Afghanistan between November 2001 and May 2021. An exact number is unavailable as personnel and deployment data held by the Department is incomplete before 2007.