Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the statement of 27 June 2011, Official Report, columns 634-44, on defence reform, whether he has made an estimate of the number of injured service personnel who would be employed in the Joint Force Command; what roles such personnel would perform; and if he will make a statement.
Andrew Robathan (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans), Defence; South Leicestershire, Conservative)
All three services retain injured personnel, if they wish to stay, for as long as it is judged to be in the interest of the individual and the service. It is too early to estimate how many injured service personnel might be employed in Joint Forces Command or what they might do.