Armed Forces: Discharges
(asked on 3rd September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2021 to Question 10678 on Armed Forces: Injuries, how many service personnel left the services (a) with and (b) without medical discharge in each of the last 10 years.
Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2021, there were a) 20,970 UK Regular Armed Forces medical discharges and b) 157,295 UK Regular Armed Forces personnel who left service without a medical discharge. A breakdown by Financial Year is presented as follows:
Table 1: UK Regular Armed Forces1 medical discharges and other outflow, by Financial Year, numbers
1 April 2011 to 31 March 2021
Year | Medical Discharges | Other Outflow2 |
Total | 20,970 | 157,295 |
2011/12 | 1,615 | 19,946 |
2012/13 | 2,314 | 21,553 |
2013/14 | 2,697 | 20,878 |
2014/15 | 2,644 | 16,643 |
2015/16 | 2,332 | 14,599 |
2016/17 | 2,467 | 12,839 |
2017/18 | 2,377 | 13,045 |
2018/19 | 1,822 | 13,021 |
2019/20 | 1,578 | 13,831 |
2020/21 | 1,124 | 10,940 |
Sources: DMICP, FMed 23, JPA