Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many female service personnel (a) joined and (b) left the (i) army, (ii) navy, (iii) air force and (iv) marines since September 2022.

The requested information is published in the UK Armed Forces Biannual Diversity Statistics, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-april-2023/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-april-2023