Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the expected personnel (a) inflow and (b) outflow in each (i) rank and (ii) branch specialisation and arm in the Royal Navy over the next 10 years.

Mark Lancaster, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Personnel and Veterans: The information requested for the Naval Service is provided in the tables attached.

Notes:

No estimates are provided for ranks greater than Commodore as they are not modelled.

Inflow tables represent Gains to Trained Strength figures.

Outflow tables represent flows from the Naval Service to civil life.

All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy; therefore totals may not equal the sum of their parts. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the multiple of 20 to avoid bias. Numbers that would be rounded to 0 are represented by '~'.