Royal Navy Situation Reports: UK Defence Official Statistics

From April 2013, the release of this publication is not announced on the Statistics Publication Hub, in line with a new Ministry of Defence policy. The dataset contains Royal Navy situation reports, designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics. It is published by the UK Ministry of Defence under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Royal Navy operational reporting based on the situation report format.
• Study the publication and dissemination of UK defence statistics based on the described MOD policy change.
• Examine the structure and content of official, non-National Statistics from a government agency.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative UK Ministry of Defence.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.
• Has a specific policy context described regarding its announcement from April 2013.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Defence

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:48.337289; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom