Armed Forces: Deployment
(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Goldie on 6 August 2020 (HL7356), how much have the ten largest deployments of UK armed forces overseas increased or decreased over the past five years.
A summary of the ten largest deployments of military personnel over the past five years has been extracted from the annual statistics published on GOV.uk, and captured in the table below:
Year | 1-Apr-15 | 1-Apr-16 | 1-Apr-17 | 1-Apr-18 | 1-Apr-19 | 1-Apr-20 |
Total Overseas | 15,300 | 10,560 | 9,260 | 9,040 | 8,220 | 6,050 |
Cyprus | 2,400 | 2,250 | 2,250 | 2,160 | 2,150 | 2,290 |
United States | 610 | 670 | 820 | 920 | 790 | 730 |
Germany | 10,020 | 5,310 | 3,870 | 3,580 | 2,850 | 540 |
Belgium | 310 | 290 | 290 | 280 | 290 | 290 |
Canada | 280 | 260 | 290 | 280 | 310 | 260 |
Kenya | 200 | 260 | 250 | 250 | 260 | 250 |
Italy | 180 | 180 | 180 | 190 | 180 | 180 |
Gibraltar | 160 | 160 | 160 | 170 | 160 | 160 |
Brunei | 160 | 160 | 170 | 170 | 180 | 160 |
Saudi Arabia | 120 | 130 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 130 |
Source: Defence Statistics | ||||||
Annual statistics on the locations of UK Armed Forces across the globe can be accessed using the link below.