Armed Forces: Catering

(asked on 26th April 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Rogan Portrait
Lord Rogan
(Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) military chefs, and (2) cooks, were employed within the UK by (a) the British Army, (b) the Royal Navy, and (c) the Royal Air Force, in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Baroness Goldie Portrait
Baroness Goldie
This question was answered on 28th April 2022

The number of personnel serving with a specialisation of Chef or Catering Services employed within the UK by (a) the British Army, (b) the Royal Navy, and (c) the Royal Air Force, in each of the last 10 years is shown below along with the total stationed in the UK. Cook is not a specified military designation on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system and records for non-military chefs/cooks are not held on JPA.

Navy

Army

RAF

Financial year

Total Trained Regular Chefs

of which stationed in the UK4

Total Trained Regular Chefs

of which stationed in the UK4

Total Trained Regular Chefs

of which stationed in the UK4

01 April 2012

801

790

2,299

1,720

595

589

01 April 2013

724

715

1,972

1,548

503

496

01 April 2014

702

692

1,588

1,223

447

442

01 April 2015

717

708

1,282

1,027

431

428

01 April 2016

716

709

1,223

1,084

436

433

01 April 2017

751

745

1,188

1,082

436

433

01 April 2018

717

711

1,137

1,026

435

432

01 April 2019

712

706

1,063

963

422

418

01 April 2020

715

708

993

954

409

404

01 April 2021

687

682

974

933

420

417

Source: Analysis (Tri-Service)

Notes:

  1. Trained Strength for the Services comprises military personnel who have completed both Phase 1 and 2 training.
  2. Personnel based in the UK are those with a stationed location within of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland at the dates specified.
  3. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Across the time period, there was on average less than 1% of Trained Regular Chefs with a stationed location of “No Value”. These personnel may have been stationed in the UK.
  5. Figures represent the Strength of Trained Regular Chefs at each situation date; personnel are included for each situation date that they are on Strength. These figures are Strengths, rather than the intake of Chefs in any given year.
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