Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to table 2.2a in the Annual Statistics Tables 2022: Service Complaints published by the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces, for what reason there was a 49 per cent increase in formal service complaints classified as other between 2021 and 2022.

The ‘other’ service complaints identified in table 2.2a of the Service Complaints Annual Statistics Tables 2022 has risen because there was a rise in the component categories that are classified as ‘other’ for statistical purposes. Further details of the 260 ‘other’ service complaints identified in table 2.2a of the Service Complaints Annual Statistics Tables 2022 is given in table 2.1 of the same data set.