Mike Penning: The requested information is provided below: UK Regular Forces Recruitment, Resignations and Retirements During Calendar Years 2014-16 2014 2015 2016 Recruitment 12,339 13,886 13,444 Resignations 7,450 7,917 7,352 Retirements 3,333 2,740 1,664 Notes: All figures have been sourced from Tables 4 and 5d of the 1 February 2017 edition of the Monthly Service...

Mike Penning: The UK remains strongly committed to European security and will remain so after we leave the EU, but defining the specifics of the UK's future foreign, security, and defence policy relationship with the EU will be subject to negotiation.

Mike Penning: The UK Government continues to make a key contribution to NATO's non-combat train, advise and assist mission which is helping the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces to build security and stability for the long term. Afghan security forces are now fully responsible for the security of the country, and have showed great professionalism and resilience in tackling security and countering...

Mike Penning: None of the Service personnel stationed in Egypt are involved in operations in Yemen. Three are based in the Defence Section in the British Embassy in Cairo delivering UK Defence Engagement with Egypt, and two are deployed with the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping organisation in the Sinai, which exists to monitor the terms of the 1979 Treaty of the Peace between Egypt and...

Mike Penning: As part of our commitment to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, details of the UK's Main Battle Tank numbers, and those of NATO Allies who are also signatories to the Treaty, are published on the UK Government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/conventional-armed- forces-in-europe-equipment-holdings-statistics-2017x I am withholding the information on the deployability...

Mike Penning: The UK is not a member of the Saudi-led Coalition and British military personnel are not directly involved in the Saudi-led Coalition's operations in Yemen.

Mike Penning: The Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial honours the contribution of all those in the UK Armed Forces and all UK citizens who supported the campaigns in the Gulf region, Iraq and Afghanistan from 1990-2015. As these operations spanned over 25 years, involving some 300,000 Service personnel and many tens of thousands of civilians, attendance could only be on a representative basis. Therefore, to...

Mike Penning: The UK currently has eight posts established within US Africa Command (Stuttgart) and its subordinate command Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) (Djibouti):One Senior UK Liaison Officer (Stuttgart)One Deputy UK Liaison Officer and Intelligence Liaison Officer (Stuttgart)One Embed Planning Officer (Stuttgart)Three Liaison Planning/Operations Officer (Stuttgart)One Embed...

Mike Penning: The deployment of US military personnel from the United States Visiting Forces bases at RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton and RAF Molesworth is a matter for the US military authorities; there is no requirement for the Ministry of Defence to be notified of such deployments.

Mike Penning: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 2 March 2017 to Question 65616. 65616 - WQnA extract on Iraq:Military Intervention (Word Document, 32.59 KB)