Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Ofsted ratings are of each establishment providing care and welfare of armed forces initial training.

The Ofsted ratings for each of the Armed Forces Apprenticeship programmes are as follows:

Royal Navy – OUTSTANDING, inspected 8 March 2018 (next inspection is due before the end of July 2025)

British Army – GOOD, inspected 25 October 2023

Royal Air Force – GOOD, inspected 9 July 2024

The Ofsted ratings for each of the Armed Forces Initial Training establishments in the 2023-24 Academic Year are as follows:

HMS Raleigh, Cornwall – GOOD

RAF Shawbury, Shropshire – GOOD

Aerial Erector School, RAF Digby, Lincolnshire – OUTSTANDING

Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Devon – GOOD

Defence Medical Academy, Staffordshire – REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT

11 Royal School of Signals Regiment, Dorset – GOOD

HMNB Clyde, Argyll, Scotland – GOOD

University Officer Training Corps, nationwide – GOOD

Defence School of Policing and Guarding, Hampshire – GOOD

Army Foundation College (Harrogate), North Yorkshire – OUTSTANDING

Defence Animal Training Centre, Leicestershire – OUTSTANDING

Britannia Royal Naval College, Devon – GOOD

All reports are publicly available via Ofsted on the gov.uk website: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/