Accredited official statistics

Military deaths in service statistics: background quality reports

Background quality report relating to statistics on deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Published: 5 March 2014
• Last updated: 26 March 2026
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  1. 26 March 2026

     Background Quality Report has been updated for 2026.

  2. 27 March 2025

     Updated: Background quality report: deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces.

  3. 4 April 2024

     Updated: Background Quality Report.

  4. 30 March 2023

     Background quality report updated.

  5. 31 March 2022

     Background Quality Report updated.

  6. 25 March 2021

     Addition of: background quality report: deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces for 2020.

  7. 1 September 2020

     Updated the Background Quality report on the 1 September 2020.

  8. 28 March 2019

     Updated the Background Quality Report for the statistics released on the 28 March 2019.

  9. 27 March 2018

     Updated Background quality report: deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces.

  10. 30 March 2017

      Background quality report updated 30 March 2017.

  11. 31 March 2016

      Added updated BQR

  12. 26 March 2015

      Added updated BQR.

  13. 5 March 2014

      First published.

Documents

Background quality report: deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces

PDF, 203 KB, 10 pages

Details

The purpose of a background quality report is to inform users of the statistics about the quality of the data used to produce the publication and any statistics derived from that data. These reports relate to statistics on deaths, including suicide and open verdicts in the UK regular armed forces.