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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of (a) Royal Navy and Royal Marines, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force trained strength was deployed on operations and other military tasks for (i) the final quarter of financial year 2003-04 and (ii) the first two quarters of financial year 2004-05. [188463] Mr. Ingram: Information on trained strength deployed on Operations and other Military Tasks is produced quarterly, in arrears, as part of the Ministry of Defence's assessment of performance against Spending Review 2002 Public Service Agreement targets. It is published on the MOD website (www.mod.uk) following review by the Defence Management Board, and on the Treasury Public Service Performance Reporting website (http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ performance/MOD.cfm). Quarter 4 data for 2003-04 (January to March 2004) is given in the table (and is available on the MOD and HMT websites): Percentage of trained strength deployed on operations and other military tasks _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2003-04 Q4 Navy/Marines 17.7 Army 22.6 RAF 12.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Percentages exclude those either preparing for, or recovering from, deployments and are quarterly averages. A list of Military Tasks can be found on the Department's website (http:// www.mod.uk). Quarter 1 data for 2004-05 (April to June 2004) is currently being collected, and will be published at the end of September. We expect to publish Quarter 2 data for 2004-05 (July to September 2004) at the end of November.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c1769-70W;424 c1767-8W; 188463

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Armed forces Army Deployment Air force Navy Marines

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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