Liam Fox
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) RAF, (b) Fleet Air Arm and (c) Army personnel completed training for (i) fast jet and (ii) rotary types in each year since 2001.
Bob Ainsworth
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
The information requested is provided in the following table:
| Financial year | |||||||
| Service | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Fleet Air Arm | |||||||
| Fast-Jet | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Rotary | 56 | 62 | 64 | 76 | 52 | 46 | 64 |
| Army | |||||||
| Rotary | 41 | 46 | 43 | 41 | 50 | 46 | 45 |
| RAF( 1) | |||||||
| Fast-Jet | 65 | 62 | 72 | 72 | 51 | 55 | 58 |
| Rotary | 58 | 79 | 83 | 76 | 50 | 63 | 93 |
| (1 )These figures include all RAF personnel who completed training for fast-jet and rotary aircraft (i.e. pilots, navigators and crewmen) as appropriate. The figures for rotary aircraft include Chinook, Merlin and Puma. | |||||||
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