Maritime Patrol Aircraft
(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many RAF crews have been embedded in the Canadian military on maritime patrol duties in each year since 2010; and how many of those crew members no longer serve in the UK armed forces.
The information is not held in the format requested.
However, the number of RAF personnel embedded with each nation’s military on Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) duties as part of the Seedcorn Initiative and Exchange Officer programme, on 1 April each year, is set out in the table below:
Year | Number of Personnel Embedded | |||
| US | Canada | Australia | New Zealand |
2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
2011 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
2012 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
2013 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
2014 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
2015 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
2016 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
The number of RAF personnel who were embedded in each nation’s military on MPAs from 2010 to 2016, who no longer serve in the British Armed Forces, is set out below:
US 1
Canada 1
Australia 0
New Zealand 1