Armed Forces: Deployment
(asked on 18th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many members of the armed forces are currently posted overseas.
This question was answered on 26th June 2014
At 1 April 2014 there were approximately 18,070 Regular Armed Forces Personnel stationed overseas. This figure excludes Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel and mobilised reservists.
Details of the locations by country and breakdown by Service are reported as part of our Quarterly Location Statistics and the latest report is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/312590/qls_april_14.pdf
The next quarterly report is due to be published on 21 August 2014.