Armed Forces: Drugs
(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2023 to Question 462 on Armed Forces: Drugs, how many armed forces personnel in each of the armed services were discharged after failing drugs tests in each of the last five years.
The requested information on Compulsory Drug Testing failures (discharges) is provided in the following table:
Year | Royal Navy | Army | Royal Air Force |
2018 | 140 | 640 | 80 |
2019 | 130 | 660 | 40 |
2020 | 90 | 410 | 40 |
2021 | 130 | 580 | 60 |
2022 | 170 | 700 | 80 |
The figures provided are single Service estimates to the nearest 10 based on data which is not gathered for statistical purposes or subject to the same level of scrutiny as official statistics produced by Defence Statistics. The figures provided may therefore be subject to data quality issues affecting their accuracy.