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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
University Royal Naval Units: Aberdeen (4 December 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason records of the membership of the University Royal Naval Unit in Aberdeen between 2008 and 2012 were not retained.

Asked by:
Andrew Bowie (Conservative)

Answer

University Royal Naval Units hold personnel files in the unit for two years after an Officer Cadet departs. Files are subsequently archived from the two to seven year period, after which they are destroyed.

The Ministry of Defence has established that the University of Aberdeen publishes minutes of the Military Education Committee; while this is non-Departmental information, the minutes do contain the following membership statistics for the Aberdeen URNU:

Year

Membership

December 2008

51

December 2009

51

December 2010

48

November 2011

53

December 2012

28

The full minutes are available at the following link:

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/governance/military-education-committee-648.php


Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
11 December 2018

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