To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK (a) military personnel and (b) civilians have been (i) killed and (ii) wounded in Afghanistan in the last 13 years.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
8 January 2015
Between 7 October 2001 and 17 December 2014, 453 UK military personnel have died on operations in Afghanistan.
Information regarding those killed and wounded in Afghanistan is published on the Government's website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/op-herrick-casualty-and-fatality-tables-released-in-2014.
Nine UK civilians have been treated for injuries in Afghanistan or aeromedically evacuated by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). These are included within the published figures.
No MOD civilians have died on operations in Afghanistan.