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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of serving military personnel in (a) the Army, (b) the Royal Air Force and (c) the Royal Navy are (i) single, (ii) married, (iii) divorced and (iv) separated listed by age ranges (1) 16 to 20, (2) 20 to 24, (3) 30 to 34, (4) 35 to 39, (5) 40 to 44, (6) 45 to 49, (7) 50 to 59 and (8) 60 and over; what percentage of force strength this represents in each age range; and if he will make a statement. [27677] Mr. Ingram: [holding answer 23 January 2002]: The current strength of UK regular forces by marital status and age range are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age Single Percentage Married Percentage Divorced/ Percentage Total Separated Naval Service 24 and under 11,958 96.2 447 3.6 23 0.2 12,428 25-29 5,190 68.9 2,352 30.3 219 2.8 7,761 30-34 2,843 33.8 5,029 59.8 539 6.4 8,411 35-39 1,152 15.2 5,707 75.2 729 9.0 7,588 40-44 361 9.9 2,948 81.1 326 9.0 3,635 45 and over 149 6.2 2,120 88.2 135 5.6 2,404 Grand total 21,653 51.3 18,603 44.1 1,971 4.7 42,227 Age Single Percentage Married Percentage Divorced Percentage Widowed Percentage Total Army 24 and under 40,029 89.4 4,663 10.4 65 0.1 3 0.0 44,760 25-29 10,933 49.8 10,475 47.7 553 2.5 5 0.0 21,966 30-34 3,409 17.4 15,050 76.8 1,127 5.8 17 0.1 19,603 35-39 1,040 7.0 12,725 86.0 1,038 7.0 17 0.1 14,820 40-44 219 4.5 4,379 89.5 293 6.0 14 0.3 4,905 45 and over 117 3.4 3,218 93.5 108 3.1 24 0.7 3,467 Grand total 55,747 50.9 50,510 46.1 3,184 2.9 80 0.1 109,521 Age Single Percentag Married Percentag Divorced Percentag Separated Percentag Widowed Percentag Total e e e e e RAF 24 and 10,528 90.0 1,072 9.2 8 0.1 89 0.8 -- 0.0 11,697 under 25-29 4,653 52.9 3,607 41.0 180 2.0 360 4.1 -- 0.0 8,800 30-34 2,392 21.0 7,601 66.6 615 5.4 787 6.9 13 0.1 11,408 35-39 903 8.4 8,477 79.0 672 6.3 662 6.2 15 0.1 10,729 40-44 287 4.9 4,975 84.3 325 5.5 298 5.1 14 0.2 5,899 45 and over 124 2.7 4,154 89.4 201 4.3 137 2.9 30 0.6 4,646 Grand total 18,887 35.5 29,886 56.2 2,001 3.8 2,333 4.4 72 0.1 53,179 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: DASA (Tri-Service) Separate divorced/separated figures are not available for the Naval service. Widowed figures are also not available for the Naval service. Separate figures are not available for the Army. These are included in the married figures. Figures are provided for the UK regular forces and show trained and untrained personnel including officers and other ranks. The figures exclude gurkhas. Full time reserve service personnel, home service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised reservists.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

27677; 379 c18-20W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Armed forces Age Army Air force Divorce Staff Navy Married people Separation Single people

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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