Royal Navy and Royal Marine boarding teams with HMS Cumberland currently involved in the Libyan blockade Photo: ROYAL NAVY By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
10:12PM BST 01 Apr 2011
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Military commanders from the Army and Navy will inform serving members of the Armed Forces on Monday that they could be among more than 2,000 uniformed personnel to be made redundant in September.
Those eligible for the redundancy programme starting next week will include some soldiers presently completing tours in Afghanistan. Seamen currently aboard warships and submarines in the Mediterranean supporting operations in Libya will also be told they could be included.
The prospect of making redundant personnel on operations will be highly controversial in light of ministers’ repeated promises to protect the front line.
Although not certain that those deployed in the Mediterranean and Afghanistan will be sacked, commanders fear morale will be seriously harmed by making front-line personnel eligible for redundancy.
“It is inevitable there will be disharmony when you are making targeted sackings across the board,” said a Navy source.
On Monday, the Army and Navy will set out the first redundancies. The Daily Telegraph understands the Army will announce that 561 redundancies will be made on Sept 1. Approximately 150 of those will be officers, raising questions about the Army’s future leadership.
The Navy is expected to announce that about 1,600 job losses will be made on Sept 30. Approximately one third are expected to be officers.
Ultimately, the Army will lose 7,000 personnel and the Royal Navy 5,000 over three years.
The Army and Navy will begin the redundancy programme by setting out the “fields” or groups of personnel whose numbers must be reduced. Every employee potentially at risk has to be informed by their employer.
It is believed that some sailors on HMS Cumberland, a frigate enforcing the Libyan arms embargo, could fall within the fields where cuts will be made.
Submariners on HMS Turbulence, a Trafalgar-class submarine off the Libyan coast, could also be eligible.
In the Army, it is understood that cuts will be made across all units, with some infantry, cavalry, artillery and logistics personnel losing their jobs. The Gurkhas will be particularly affected, sources said.
Ministers have previously promised that no one serving in Afghanistan would be sacked because of the cuts announced in last year’s defence review.
The Ministry of Defence said the promise would protect personnel in Afghanistan on Sept 1, when the Army redundancies begin. Those preparing to deploy or who have just returned from the country will also be shielded. However, many personnel now in Afghanistan will be eligible for inclusion in the redundancy programme, because they will leave well before September.
Troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade — including the Household Cavalry, the Irish Guards and the Parachute Regiment — are currently finishing a tour in Helmand. A senior Army source said: “We are inevitably going to get grizzled sergeants who will be told by their commanding officer on Monday that they are in the field for taking redundancy. It won’t be pretty but there’s no other way to do this.”
Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP and a former Army officer, said he was concerned at how the MoD was dealing with the issue. “Whatever the rights and wrongs of defence cuts it is vitally important that our fighting men and women are not undermined while they are fighting the Queen’s enemies.”
Andrew Robathan, the Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, said: “That we have to make any Armed Forces personnel redundant is deeply regrettable and a consequence of the dire economic situation and appalling deficit in the defence budget that we inherited. On the dates redundancy notices are issued no personnel preparing for, deployed on, or returning from combat operations and in receipt of post-tour leave will be made compulsorily redundant.”
Michael Dugher, the shadow defence minister, said: “Ministers should stick to undertakings they have given that their cuts will not impact on the front line.
“Such treatment will rightly be seen as shabby in the extreme.”
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