UK Defence Statistics 2004 A National Statistics Publication 111111111111111112 CONTENTS Chapter Page 2.8 Strengths of the UK Regular Forces by age and by 47 Section rank at 1 April each year or Table 2.9 Full-time trained strengths and Requirements at 1 48 April each year Introduction 5 Symbols and conventions 6 2.10 Strengths of the UK Regular Forces by ethnic origin at 49 1 April 2003 1 Finance 2.11 Strengths of the UK Regular Forces by ethnic origin 50 Introduction and Key Trends 7 and broad rank at 1 April each year Note on Resource Accounting and Budgeting 9 2.12 Strengths of the UK Regular Forces by sex and rank 51 Departmental Resources at 1 April each year Notes and Key Trends 10 2.13 Strengths of the Reserve Forces at 1 April each year 52 Defence Expenditure / Budget 1.1 12 2.14 Strengths of the cadet forces 52 Total Expenditure on Services by Government 1.2 13 2.15 Intake of UK Regular Forces from civil life by service 53 Function 2.16 Intake of UK Regular Forces by ethnic origin and 54 1.3 Principal Headings of the Defence Budget (resource 14 service basis) 2.17 Intake of UK Regular Forces by sex and service 55 MOD Resources by Budgetary Areas 1.4 15 2.18 Gains to the trained Strength of UK Regular Forces 55 1.5 MOD Resources by Departmental Aims and 16 by service Objectives 2.19 Outflow of UK Regular Forces by Service and whether 56 1.6 MOD Fixed Assets: 2003 17 trained or untrained MOD Research & Development expenditure outturn 1.7 18 Note on intake and outflow from UK Regular Forces 57 Industry and employment Chart to tables 2.15 and 2.19 57 Notes and Key Trends 19 2.20 Outflow from trained Strength to Civil life of UK 58 1.8 Defence expenditure outturn in the UK: breakdown by 20 Regular Forces by Service and ethnic origin industry group up to 2001/02 2.21 Outflow from UK Regular Forces by sex and reason 59 1.8a Defence expenditure outturn in the UK: breakdown by 21 for leaving industry group 2002/03 2.22 Outflow from trained UK Regular Forces by sex and 60 1.9 Estimated UK employment dependent on MOD 22 Service expenditure and defence exports Notes and sources and methods of UK Forces Deaths 61 1.10 MOD Payments on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) 23 statistics Projects: 2003/04 2.23 Deaths of UK Regular Forces personnel by sex and 62 Trade by service, numbers and rates Notes and Key Trends 24 Chart to table 2.23 62 1.11 Estimated imports and exports of defence equipment 25 2.24 Causes of death of UK Regular Forces in 2003, 63 (goods) numbers and rates 1.12 Estimates of total export deliveries and orders: 26 Chart to table 2.24 63 defence equipment and services 2.25 Military salaries: illustrative rates and indices 64 1.13 MOD Estimated balance of payments for Trade in 27 Chart to table 2.25 64 Services 2.26 NATO Rank codes, UK service ranks and civilian 65 Defence Contracts equivalents Notes and Key Trends 28 Civilian Personnel 1.14 Contracts placed: by type 29 Note on the definition of the MOD Civilian workforce 66 1.15 Major equipment projects 30 2.27 Civilian personnel numbers by broad category at 1 67 1.16 Organisations paid £5 million or more by the Ministry 31 April each year of Defence in 2003/04 Chart to table 2.27 67 International Defence 2.28 Civilian personnel by function and grade equivalence 68 at 1 April each year Notes and Key Trends 33 1.17 Estimates of MOD Peacekeeping costs : 2003-04 34 2.29 Strength of civilian personnel by ethnic origin and 69 1.18 NATO Countries’ Defence Expenditure 1999-2003 35 grade at 1 April each year 1.19 NATO Countries’ Defence Expenditure as a % of GDP 36 2.30 Strength of civilian personnel by sex, grade and 70 2 Personnel whether full- or part-time 2.31 Intake and outflow of civilian personnel 71 Introduction and Key Trends 37 2.32 Intake and outflow of civilian personnel by ethnic 72 Personnel summary origin and broad grade Note on sources and methods 38 2.33 Intake of civilians by sex, grade and whether full- or 73 Recent trends in service and civilian numbers at 2.1 38 part-time 1 April each year 2.34 Outflow of civilians by sex, grade and whether full- or 74 Personnel by budgetary area at 1 April 2004 2.2 39 part-time 2.3 Location of UK personnel in the United Kingdom at 1 41 2.35 Number of working days lost due to sickness of 75 April each year civilian personnel, by ICD Code 2.4 Global locations of UK personnel, at 1April each year 42 2.36 Civilian Personnel in Defence Agencies and MOD 76 Strengths of locally entered personnel, including 2.5 43 owned Trading Funds by UK country at 1 April 2004 Gurkhas, by Global location at 1 April each year 2.37 Number of civilian personnel by disability status and 77 Personnel in UK Defence Agencies by broad category 2.6 44 Paid Grade, April 2004 at 1 April 2003 2.38 Age profile of civilian personnel by whether industrial 78 UK Armed Forces or non-industrial and sex as at 1 April 2004 2.7 Strengths of UK Regular Forces by service and 45 2.39 Number of War Pensions in payment by type of 79 whether trained or untrained at 1 April each year payment, at 31 March each year Chart to table 2.7 46 Charts to table 2.39 80 Note on age analysis of the Armed Forces 46 3 CONTENTS International 4.6 Damage rates per ten thousand flying hours by aircraft 109 2.40 Manpower holdings and ceilings by members of the 81 role and type Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January 4.7 Aircraft losses and aircrew casualties during military 110 2003 operations 3 Formations, vessels, aircraft and vehicles of the 5 Search and Rescue Armed Forces Introduction 111 Introduction 82 5.1 Military Search and Rescue incidents, callouts and 113 Formations people moved:1983 - 2003 3.1 Number of vessels in the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet 84 5.2 Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and 114 Auxiliary and Squadrons in the Fleet Air Arm at 1 April Rescue units: 1983 - 2003 each year 5.3 Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and 115 3.2 Number of Regiments and Battalions in the Regular 85 Rescue units by type of assistance: 1983 - 2003 and Territorial Army at 1 April each year 5.4 Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and 116 3.3 Number of squadrons in the Royal Air Force and the 86 Rescue units in each region: 1983 - 2003 Royal Auxiliary Air Force at 1 April each year 5.5 Map of UK Military Search and Rescue callouts: 2003 117 3.4 Number of Regiments and Squadrons in selected 87 6 Land holdings and buildings Joint Units at 1 April each year Introduction 118 Vessels 6.1 Land holdings by parent service area and whether 120 3.5 Numbers of Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary 88 owned leased or with legal rights at 1 April each year ships and submarines that were operational or 6.2 Land holdings by country and whether owned leased 121 undergoing refit by class and base port at April 2003 or with legal rights at 1 April each year 3.6 Number of militarily useful British-registered and 89 6.3 Land holdings by type of use and whether owned, 122 passenger dry cargo merchant vessels by principal leased or with legal rights at 1 April each year categories and sizes at 31 December each year Charts to tables 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 123 3.7 Number of militarily useful British-registered merchant 90 6.4 Service family accommodation in the United Kingdom 124 tankers, specialist and fishing vessels by principal at 1 April each year in thousands of dwellings categories and sizes at 31 December each year 6.5 Surveyed condition of Service family accommodation 125 Aircraft in Great Britain at March each year 3.8 Naval aircraft establishment by type of aircraft at April 91 7 Northern Ireland and Military Aid to the Community each year Introduction 126 3.9 Front-line aircraft establishment by type in the Royal 92 7.1 Number of Army units and personnel deployed in 127 Air Force at 1 April each year Northern Ireland at 1 April and numbers of personnel 3.10 Front-line aircraft establishment by type of aircraft in 93 deaths and injuries each year the Joint Helicopter Command and Joint Force Harrier 7.2 Number of Service personnel committed to, and 128 at 1 April each year deployed in, Northern Ireland at January, April, July 3.11 Army equipment holdings by HQ Land in the UK and 94 and October Germany within the scope of the CFE Treaty at 1 7.3 Number of Service personnel deaths and injuries, 129 January each year persons charged with terrorist offences, and the CFE Vehicles and Aircraft weight of explosives and numbers of weapons and Notes on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) 95 ammunition found in Northern Ireland each year Treaty 7.4 Number of Army personnel deployed to Northern 130 3.12 Tanks and Artillery Holdings in the UK, Germany 98 Ireland and numbers of Service personnel deaths and and Cyprus within the scope of the CFE Treaty at injuries since 1969 1 January each year 7.5 Number of vessels boarded by Royal Navy Fishery 131 3.13 Armoured Combat Vehicle Holdings in the UK, 99 Protection Squadron within British fishing limits and Germany and Cyprus within the scope of the CFE convictions arising from these boardings each year Treaty at 1 January each year 7.6 Military Aid to the Civil Community and other 132 3.14 Aircraft Holdings in the UK, Germany and Cyprus 100 Government Departments – examples of when and within the scope of the CFE Treaty at 1 January each where service assistance was provided year 3.15 Declared Tanks, Armoured Combat Vehicles and 101 Glossary and abbreviations 133 Artillery Holdings and Ceilings by Country within the Bibliography 142 scope of the CFE Treaty a1 1 January 2003 Useful web sites 143 3.16 Declared Attack Helicopters and Combat