Defence written question – answered at on 12 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) Royal Air Force and (b) Royal Navy personnel undertaking pilot training were informed of (i) redundancy and (ii) termination of their place on their course; at what stage of their training they were so informed; and how many such personnel have been assigned to other duties.
In March this year, 170 RAF student pilots left the flying training pipeline during the initial phase of flying training, which is undertaken prior to learning to fly specific operational aircraft. Of those:
seven student pilots have secured career moves to ground-based branches;
161 have been notified they will be made redundant; and two are leaving the RAF for different reasons.
Redundancy notifications for personnel in the Royal Navy will be issued on
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