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date	18/04/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Diplomatic Service: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Fifth Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Session 2014–15, Support for British nationals abroad: The Consular Service, HC 516, what recommendations from the section of that report on deaths abroad have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	136617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>​We have made changes in response to both the 2014 Foreign Affairs Committee report and the FCO's own internal review (which was also carried out in 2014). Most notably, the FCO created a dedicated team to handle Murder and Manslaughter cases. Since its creation in 2015, this team has supported over 200 families. We continue to regularly review our consular policy to ensure we are supporting the most vulnerable.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 25/04/2018 15:16:16 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

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date	23/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) soldiers there were in the British Army in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	115231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The officer and soldier strengths of the Army at 1 April for each year since 2000 are shown below:</p><p> </p><p>Army Full Time Strength</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Officers</p></td><td><p>Soldiers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>14,130</p></td><td><p>100,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>14,320</p></td><td><p>99,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>14,550</p></td><td><p>100,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>14,940</p></td><td><p>102,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>15,180</p></td><td><p>102,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>15,040</p></td><td><p>98,370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>15,130</p></td><td><p>96,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>15,100</p></td><td><p>95,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>15,090</p></td><td><p>94,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>14,930</p></td><td><p>96,370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>15,020</p></td><td><p>98,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>15,020</p></td><td><p>95,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>14,660</p></td><td><p>93,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>14,060</p></td><td><p>89,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>13,360</p></td><td><p>80,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>13,000</p></td><td><p>77,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>12,790</p></td><td><p>75,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>12,910</p></td><td><p>73,870</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Future Reserves 2020 Strength</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Officers</p></td><td><p>Soldiers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>21,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>20,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,350</p></td><td><p>19,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4,490</p></td><td><p>20,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>4,840</p></td><td><p>23,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,100</p></td><td><p>24,840</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1. Numbers are for trained and untrained personnel and have been produced by Defence Statistics.</p><ol start="2"><li>Full time strength in the above tables includes the trained element which contributes to the liability. e.g. it includes Gurkhas but it excludes Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) Home Commitment (HC) and those FTRS serving on Operational Commitment Establishment (Reserve). As such these may differ from published statistics.</li></ol><p>3. The Future Reserves 2020 population consists of Group A Army Reserves, some Sponsored Reserves and those personnel serving on FTRS(HC) contracts who were previously Army Reservists. Ministry of Defence does not hold Future Reserves 2020 population data pre – 2012.</p><p>4. Figures have been rounded to 10, numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 04/12/2017 17:04:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin previous answer version 26546 answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood answering member 1487
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins