Tables marked as NS are National Statistics. Those without are outside the scope of National Statistics.
Details are provided above individual tables.
| CHAPTER 1 - FINANCE |
| Introduction & Key Trends | |
| Resource Accounting and Budgeting | |
| Notes & Key Trends - Departmental Resources | |
| Table 1.1 | Defence Expenditure Outturn | NS |
| Table 1.2 | Public Expenditure by Departmental Grouping | NS |
| Table 1.3 | Principal Headings of Defence Expenditure Outturn (Resource basis) | NS |
| Table 1.4 | Estimated MOD Equipment Expenditure | |
| Table 1.5 | MOD Resources by Budgetary Areas | NS |
| Table 1.6 | MOD Resources by Departmental Aims & Objectives | NS |
| Table 1.7 | MOD Fixed Assets: 2008/09 | NS |
| Table 1.8 | MOD Research & Development Expenditure Outturn | NS |
| Notes and Key Trends - Industry and Employment | |
| Table 1.9 | Estimated Defence Expenditure Outturn in the UK: Breakdown by Industry Group | NS |
| Chart to 1.9 | Change in UK Defence Spending By Industry Group: 2003/04 - 2007/08 | NS |
| Table 1.10 | Estimated UK Employment Dependent on MOD Expenditure and Defence Exports | |
| Table 1.11 | Estimated UK Regional Direct Employment Dependent on MOD Expenditure | |
| Table 1.11a | Estimated UK Regional Direct Employment Dependent on MOD Equipment Expenditure | |
| Table 1.11b | Estimated UK Regional Direct Employment Dependent on MOD Non Equipment Expenditure | |
| Table 1.12 | MOD Payments on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Projects: 2008/2009 | NS |
| Table 1.12a |
PFI Projects with Planned MOD Unitary Charge Payments over £25 million: 2009/10 |
NS |
| Notes and Key Trends - Trade | |
| Table 1.13 | Estimates of Identified Export Orders: Defence Equipment & Services |
|
| Table 1.14 | Ministry of Defence Estimated Balance of Payments for Trade in Services |
|
| Notes and Key Trends - Defence Contracts | |
| Table 1.15 | Contracts Placed: By Type | NS |
| Table 1.16 |
Major Equipment Projects | NS |
| Table 1.17 |
Organisations paid £5 million or more by the Ministry of Defence in 2008/09 |
NS |
| Table 1.17a |
Private Sector Companies paid £50 million or more by the Ministry of Defence in 2008/09: By Holding Company |
NS |
| Notes and Key Trends - International Defence | |
| Table 1.18 |
MOD Operations and Peacekeeping Costs | NS |
| Table 1.19 |
NATO Countries' Defence Expenditure 2004 - 2008 |
|
| Table 1.20 |
NATO Countries' Defence Expenditure as % of GDP 2004 - 2008 |
|
| Table 1.21 |
Top Worldwide Military Spenders: 2008 |
|
| CHAPTER 2 - PERSONNEL |
| Introduction | |
| Table 2.1 | Recent trends in Service and civilian personnel strengths, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.2 | Location of Service and civilian personnel in the United Kingdom | NS |
| Table 2.3 | Global locations of Service and civilian personnel at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.4 |
Strength of locally entered personnel, including Gurkhas by global location, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Armed Forces personnel key points and trends | |
| Table 2.5 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by Service, and whether trained or untrained, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Chart to 2.5 |
Percentage change in UK Regular Forces compared with 1 April 1990 |
NS |
| Table 2.6 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by age and rank at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.7 |
Full-time trained strength and requirement at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.8 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by Service, ethnic origin and rank at 1 April 2008 | NS |
| Table 2.9 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by ethnic origin and rank at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.10 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by Service and ethnic origin at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.11 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by sex and rank at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.12 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by sex and Service, at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.13 |
Strength of UK Regular Forces by Service and religion at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.14 | Strength of the Trained UK Regular Forces by Service and nationality at 1 April each year |
NS |
| Table 2.15 |
Strength of the Reserve Forces at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.16 |
Strength of the cadet forces at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.17 |
Intake to UK Regular Forces from civil life by Service and sex | NS |
| Table 2.18 |
Intake to untrained strength of UK Regular Forces by Service and ethnic origin | NS |
| Table 2.19 |
Intake to untrained strength of UK Regular Forces by Service and sex | NS |
| Table 2.20 |
Gains to trained strength of UK Regular Forces by Service | NS |
| Table 2.21 |
Outflow from UK Regular Forces by Service and whether trained or untrained | NS |
| Charts to 2.17 & 2.21 |
Intake and Outflow of UK Regular Forces | NS |
| Table 2.22 |
Outflow from trained UK Regular Forces by Service and ethnic origin |
NS |
| Table 2.23 |
Outflow from UK Regular Forces by sex and Service |
NS |
| Table 2.24 |
UK Regular Forces salaries: illustrative rates and indices (1990/91=100) |
NS |
| Chart to 2.24 |
UK Regular Forces salaries: illustrative rates and indices |
NS |
| Table 2.25 |
NATO Rank Codes and UK Service Ranks | |
| Civilian Personnel - Key Points and Trends | |
| Table 2.26 | Civilian personnel, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.27 | Civilian personnel by budgetary area, at 1 April 2009
| NS |
| Table 2.28 | Civilian Personnel in UK Defence Agencies and MOD-owned Trading Funds, at 1 April 2009 | NS |
| Table 2.29 | Civilian personnel by budgetary area and grade equivalent, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.30 | Strength of civilian personnel by ethnic origin and grade, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.31 | Strength of civilian personnel by sex, grade and whether full or part-time, at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 2.32 | Intake and outflow of Civilian personnel | NS |
| Table 2.33 | Intake and outflow of UK based civilian personnel by ethnic origin and broad grade | NS |
| Table 2.34 | Intake of civilian personnel by sex, grade and whether full or part-time | NS |
| Table 2.35 | Outflow of civilian personnel, by sex, grade and whether full or part-time | NS |
| Table 2.36 | Number of civilian personnel by disability status, and grade, at 1 April 2009 | NS |
| Table 2.37 | Age profile of civilian personnel by industrial status and sex, at 1 April 2009 | NS |
| Compensation Claims Introduction | |
| Table 2.38 | New claims and settled claims by broad category in each year | |
| Table 2.39 | New claims and settled claims by broad cause in each year | |
| Table 2.40 | Manpower holdings and ceilings by member country within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January 2009 | |
| CHAPTER 3 - HEALTH |
| Introduction | |
| | Deaths in the UK Armed Forces |
|
| Table 3.1 | Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by year of occurrence and Service, numbers, age and gender standardised rates and Standardised Mortality Ratios, 1999-2008 |
NS |
| Table 3.2 | Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by year of occurrence and cause, numbers, 1999-2008 |
NS |
| Table 3.3 | Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by year of occurrence and cause, age and gender standardised rates, 1999-2008 | NS |
| Table 3.4 | Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by year of occurrence and cause, standardised mortality ratio, 1999-2008 | NS |
| | Suicide and Open Verdict Deaths Among the UK Regular Armed Forces |
|
| Table 3.5 |
Suicide and open verdict and awaiting verdict deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by Service and gender, numbers, 1984 - 2008 | NS |
| Table 3.6 | Suicide and open verdict deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: Numbers and Standardised Mortality Ratios, 1984 - 2008, males only |
NS |
| | UK Gulf Veterans Mortality
|
|
| Table 3.7 | Deaths among UK Gulf 1 Veterans by cause, numbers and rate ratios, 1 April 1991 - 31 December 2008 |
NS |
| Chart to 3.7 | Deaths among UK Gulf 1 Veterans by cause, numbers and rate ratios, 1 April 1991 - 31 December 2008 |
NS |
| Table 3.8 | Number of UK Armed Forces and Civilian Operational Fatalities | |
| Table 3.9 | Number of UK Armed Forces and Civilian Operational Casualties | |
| | Psychiatric Morbidity
|
|
| Table 3.10 | New attendees assessed with a mental disorder at the MOD’s Departments of Community Mental Health: numbers and rates by demographic and military characteristics, 2007 and 2008 | |
| Table 3.11 | Mental disorder initial assessments for all new cases seen at a Departments of Community Mental Health: numbers and rates, by year and ICD-10 classification, 2007 and 2008 | |
| Table 3.12 | Initial mental disorder assessments for all new cases seen at a Department of Community Mental Health: numbers and rate ratios, by deployment and ICD-10 classification, 2008 | |
| Table 3.13 |
Medical Discharges for regular UK Naval Service Personnel by principal cause code group, numbers, 2004 - 2008 |
|
| Table 3.14 | Medical Discharges for regular UK Army Personnel by principal cause code group, numbers, 2004 - 2008 |
|
| Table 3.15 | Medical Discharges for regular UK RAF Personnel by principal cause code group, numbers, 2004 - 2008 |
|
| Table 3.16 |
Number of UK Armed Forces and MOD civilian work related fatalities: by year of occurrence and type of incident, 1999-2008 |
|
| Table 3.17 | Number of on-duty work place incidents of UK Armed Forces personnel and Civilians resulting in injury-related deaths: by year of occurrence and cause, 1999-2008 |
|
| Table 3.18 | Major Injuries and Illnesses UK Armed Forces Personnel and Civilians: by year of occurrence and service, numbers and rates per 100,000, 1999-2008 |
|
| Table 3.19 | Serious Injuries and Illnesses UK Armed Forces Personnel and Civilians: by year of occurrence and service, numbers and rates per 100,000, 1999-2008 |
|
| Chart to 3.18 & 3.19 |
Major and Serious Injuries and Illnesses UK Armed Forces Personnel and Civilians: by year of occurrence and service, rates per 100,000, 1999-2008 |
|
| Table 3.20 |
Number of working days lost per year due to sickness of civilian personnel, by ICD Code and industrial/non-industrial marker |
NS |
| | War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
|
|
| Table 3.21 | Number of War Pensions in payment by type of pension, as at 31 March each year |
NS |
| Chart to 3.21 | Average weekly amount of Disablement Pension (entitlement) - as at 31 March 2009
|
|
| Table 3.22 |
Number of claims registered by claim type and financial year under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme |
|
| Table 3.23 | Number of claim outcomes by claim type and financial year under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme |
|
| Table 3.24 | Number of lump sums payments awarded by tariff of injury and financial year under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme |
|
| CHAPTER 4 - FORMATIONS, VESSELS, AIRCRAFT AND VEHICLES OF THE ARMED FORCES |
| Introduction | |
| Table 4.1 | Number of vessels in the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and squadrons in the Fleet Air Arm at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.2 | Number of Regiments, Infantry battalions & Major Headquarters, in the Regular & Territorial Army at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.3 | Number of squadrons in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.4 | Number of Regiments and Squadrons in selected Joint Units at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.5 |
Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships and submarines that were operational or undergoing refit by class and base port at 1 April 2009 | NS |
| Table 4.6 | Militarily useful British-registered passenger and dry cargo merchant vessels by principal categories and sizes at 31 December each year | NS |
| Table 4.7 | Militarily useful British-registered merchant tankers, specialist and fishing vessels by principal categories and sizes at 31 December each year | NS |
| Table 4.8 | Aircraft fleets by type of aircraft for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.9 | Aircraft fleets by type of aircraft for the Royal Air Force Air Command including Operational Conversion Units and Training Aircraft at 1 April each year | NS |
| Table 4.10 | Aircraft fleets by type of aircraft in the Joint Helicopter Command and Joint Force Harrier at 1 April each year | NS |
| CFE Vehicles and Aircraft Introduction |
|
| Table 4.11 | Tanks and Artillery Holdings in the UK, Germany, Cyprus & Gibraltar within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January each year | NS |
| Table 4.12 | Armoured Combat Vehicle Holdings in the UK, Germany, Cyprus & Gibraltar within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January each year | NS |
| Table 4.13 | Aircraft Holdings in the UK, Germany, Cyprus & Gibraltar within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January each year | NS |
| Table 4.14 |
Declared Tanks, Armoured Combat Vehicles & Artillery Holdings and Ceilings by country within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January 2009 | NS |
| Table 4.15 |
Declared Attack Helicopters & Combat Aircraft Holdings & Ceilings by country within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at 1 January 2009 | NS |
| CHAPTER 5 - MILITARY SEARCH AND RESCUE |
| Introduction | |
| Table 5.1 |
Military Search and Rescue incidents, callouts and people moved: 1998 - 2008 | NS |
| Table 5.2 |
Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and Rescue units: 1998 - 2008 | NS |
| Table 5.3 |
Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and Rescue units by type of assistance: 1998 - 2008 | NS |
| Table 5.4 |
Callouts and people moved by UK Military Search and Rescue units in each region: 1998 - 2008 | NS |
| Table 5.5 |
Map of UK Military Search and Rescue callouts: 2008 | |
| CHAPTER 6 - LAND HOLDINGS AND BUILDINGS |
| Introduction | |
| Table 6.1 | Land holdings by parent service area and whether owned, leased or with legal rights at 1 April each year in thousand hectares | NS |
| Table 6.2 | Land holdings by country and whether owned, leased or with legal rights at 1 April each year in thousand hectares | NS |
| Table 6.3 | Land holdings by type of use and whether owned, leased or with legal rights at 1 April each year in thousand hectares | NS |
| Charts to 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 |
Analysis of land holdings, at 1 April 2009 | NS |
| Table 6.4 | Service family accommodation in the United Kingdom at 31 March each year in thousand of dwellings | NS |
| Table 6.5 |
Surveyed condition of Service family accommodation in the United Kingdom at 31 March each year in thousands of dwellings |
NS |
| CHAPTER 7 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, MILITARY AID TO THE CVIL AUTHORITIES AND CONFLICT PREVENTION |
| Introduction | |
| Sustainable Development in Defence | |
| Table 7.1 | Waste recycled and reused by the Ministry of Defence |
|
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions Background Notes | |
| Table 7.2 | Ministry of Defence Carbon Dioxide Emissions |
|
| Table 7.3 | Ministry of Defence Energy Consumption |
|
| Table 7.4 | Ministry of Defence Water Consumption |
|
| Table 7.5 | Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Target Condition |
|
| Table 7.6 | Number of vessels boarded by the Royal Navy Fishery Protection Squadron within British fishing limits and convictions arising from these boardings each financial year |
NS |
| Table 7.7 | Military Aid to the Civil Power, to other Government Departments and to the Civil Community - examples of assistance provided |
NS |
| Table 7.8 | MOD support to the UK's Conflict Prevention Initiative: examples (excluding operations) of activities undertaken in 2008/09 |
NS |