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Armed Forces: Higher Education
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many (a) masters and (b) doctoral military students attending the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom his Department has funded since 2003; [284523]
(2) what expenditure his Department incurred on postgraduate education for serving members of the armed forces in each year since 2003; and what estimate he has made of such expenditure in each of the next three years. [284524]
Bill Rammell: Three colleges within the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom offer courses which are classed as postgraduate education and include either masters or doctorates.
The fees and numbers attending postgraduate education at the Defence Academy College of Management and Technology for serving members of the armed forces in the period 2003-12 are shown in the table:
| Table 1 | |||
| Academic year | Cost (£ million) | Military staff on masters courses | Military staff on doctorates |
| (1) This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. (2 )Costs and student numbers are not planned to vary significantly from the 2009-10 figures during these two academic years although there may be a modest increase in numbers. Notes: 1. Figures are provided by academic year (1 September-31 July). 2. The figures in the cost column do not include: salaries of students, accommodation costs or Defence Academy overheads. The figures cover die cost of all postgraduate courses and activities during that academic year but it should be noted that some civil servants and overseas students will also have attended these courses and their costs have not been separated out. | |||
The fees and charges relating to a masters degree offered by Royal College of Defence Studies are as follows:
| Table 2 | ||
| Academic year | Cost (£ million) | Military staff undertaking a masters |
| (1 )Per year Note: The RCDS offers to its membership an optional MA in International Studies. The option is usually taken up by a quarter of the course. The RCDS course itself provides 60 per cent. of the MA with the remaining 40 per cent. being completed through supplementary seminars, essays, dissertations and exams. | ||
The fees and charges relating to masters degree offered by Joint Services Command and Staff College during the Advanced Command and Staff Course are as follows:
| Table 3 | ||
| Academic year | Cost (£ million) | Military staff undertaking a masters |
| (1) Proposed Note: These are not full term masters degrees; they are postgraduate degrees gained through supplementary work and an exam on top of the accreditation to the masters degree earned through participation on the JSCSC Advanced Command and Staff Course. | ||
The information requested relating to the courses attended by service personnel outside of the Defence Academy is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Armed Forces: Mental Health
Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his latest estimate is of the incidence of (a) post-traumatic stress disorder and (b) other mental illnesses among soldiers in each age group who have served in (i) Bosnia, (ii) Kosovo, (iii) Iraq and (iv) Afghanistan. [286700]
Mr. Kevan Jones: The MOD's Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) organisation publishes statistics on new attendances to the MOD's Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMH) in the UK Armed Forces Psychiatric Morbidity reports. Reports for the whole of 2007 and 2008 are now available both in the Library of the House and on the DASA website at:
DASA only analyses attendances by deployment on recent operations to the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres of operation. Breakdowns by deployment to Bosnia and Kosovo could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows the number of new attendances at the MOD's DCMHs in 2008 who were assessed as having a mental disorder at an initial assessment and who had been deployed to the Iraq theatre of operation prior to their appointment. The number of these individuals who were assessed as having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is also included.
| Age | Strength | Patients assessed with a mental disorder | Of which : A ssessed with PTSD |
| '-' Signifies a number fewer than 5. | |||
The following table shows the number of new attendances at the MOD's DCMHs in 2008, who were assessed as having a mental disorder at an initial assessment and who had been deployed to the Afghanistan theatre of operation prior to their appointment. The number of these individuals who were assessed as having PTSD is also included.
| Age | Strength | Patients assessed with a mental disorder | Of which: Assessed with PTSD |
| '-' Signifies a number fewer than 5. | |||
Both tables include individuals who have been deployed to both the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres of operation. Therefore, some individuals will appear in both tables.
Finally, the following table shows the number of new attendances at the MOD's DCMHs in 2008 who were assessed as having a mental disorder at an initial assessment and who had not deployed to either the Iraq or Afghanistan theatres of operation prior to their appointment. The number of these individuals who were assessed as having PTSD is also included.
| Age | Strength | Patients assessed with a mental disorder | Of which: Assessed with PTSD |
| '-' Signifies a number fewer than 5. | |||
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