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Royal Air Force
Pinch point trade	Strength	Shortfall (Percentage)	Inflow	Outflow	Voluntary outflow (Percentage)
Officers
Medical	220	20.90	15	20	2.00
Operations Support (Intelligence)	230	1.30	6	11	1.30
Operations Support (Regiment)	240	10.10	6	19	2.40
Operations Support (Provost / Security)	140	1.40	17	35	3.70
Operations Support (Flight Operations)	190	11.60	18	24	2.50
Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service	130	27.80	11	1	2.00
Administration (Training)	200	13.40	10	24	5.60
Chaplains	60	24.10	1	11	2.00
Medical Support	80	12.10	8	1	2.00
Operations Support (Fighter Control)	300	13.30	21	22	1.70

Other ranks trades
Weapons System Operator (Air Load Master)	450	18.20	26	47	1.70
Weapons System Operator (Linguist)	50	25.40	3	7	3.80
Air Traffic Controller (ATC) / Flight Operations Manager (FOM) / Flight Operations Assistant (FOA)	⁽¹⁾1,200	⁽²⁾6	⁽³⁾81	⁽⁴⁾124	ATC -3.30
	⁽¹⁾—	⁽²⁾—	⁽³⁾—	⁽⁴⁾—	FOM/FOA (5.9)
Fire Fighter	480	13.20	48	108	14.90
Gunner	1,630	10.40	144	225	7.50
Movements Operator / Controller	860	2.20	34	73	3.90
RAF Police	1,350	-5.60	84	172	4.40
Staff Nurse (Registered General Nurse)	280	7	48	53	7.10
Intelligence Analyst (Communications)	240	16.10	19	45	7.60
Environmental Health Technician	40	16.70	7	9	2.40
Radiographer	10	9.10	0	1	9.10
Mess Manager / Steward	460	7.60	20	42	3.80
Musician	150	14.30	15	21	1.90
RAF Physical Training Instructor	490	5.20	33	21	3.60

Armed Forces: Separation

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the separation rate was for married personnel in each service in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) officers, (b) other ranks and (c) all ranks. [205128]

Derek Twigg: The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The following table shows annual divorce rates⁽¹⁾ for Army and RAF UK Regular Forces⁽²⁾ personnel for each calendar year since 1997 up until the most recent data available, by officers and ranks. Naval service data are not available as the naval service groups ‘separated’, ‘divorced’ and ‘widowed’ together.

^{(1 )}Rates are calculated as a percentage of the average married strength during the calendar years. The term ‘divorce’ includes ‘decree absolute’ and ‘marriage annulled’. It excludes ‘decree nisi’ and individuals who are separated.

^{(2 )}UK regular forces includes nursing services and excludes full-time reserve service personnel, Ghurkhas, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised reservists. It includes trained and untrained personnel.

Percentage
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006^{( 1, 2)}
Army^{( 2)}
All	⁽⁴⁾—	⁽⁴⁾—	2.1	2.3	2.2	2.6	2.4	2.4	2.1	1.9
Officers	⁽⁴⁾—	⁽⁴⁾—	0.9	1.1	0.9	1.4	1.1	1.0	1.1	1.1
Ranks	⁽⁴⁾—	⁽⁴⁾—	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.4	2.1

RAF
All	⁽⁴⁾—	1.6	1.6	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.9	1.9	⁽⁴⁾—
Officers	⁽⁴⁾—	1.0	0.9	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.5	⁽⁴⁾—
Ranks	⁽⁴⁾—	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	2.0	1.8	⁽⁴⁾—
^{(1 )}Figures for 2006 are for the most recently available 12 months which cover the period up to 1 December 2006. ^{(2 )}Following the phased introduction of a new personnel administration system, marital status data are no longer available. This table shows the most recently available data. ^{(3 )}For the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, annulments are excluded from the calculations for divorce rates, as the information was not available, however the remaining years do include annulments in their calculation. ^{(4 )}Denotes data are unavailable. Note: Percentages are calculated from unrounded figures and are shown to one decimal place.

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