I can probably take this question. We only heard half of your statement because you cut out on us, but I can state that, of all personnel who leave the armed forces, only around 16,000 a year, about 80% transition well. Of the others, 10% or maybe slightly higher than that are individuals who, after a six-month period, are still in forms of education or training or, indeed, have retired and are not intending to earn. Therefore, I can say that under 10% of those who transition out of the armed forces have an issue with regard to anything.
I can't break that down as to what is mental health and what isn't. One of the things we are able to talk about is homelessness, if that is of interest to you. There has been a study undertaken in the last few years, only available for London, where we see as few as 3% of all those who are homeless in the London area being ex-armed forces, and indeed they may come from armed forces of different nations. It is a very small number who have problems there. A very small number have difficulty transitioning.
I'm not sure if Rob, in his remarks to your earlier—we were waiting to come in—gave you overall figures. Stop me if he did, but we're talking of the veteran population in the U.K. being about 2.56 million. That's the number we're talking of. Over 50% of them are aged 75 or over, the results of the Second World War and the U.K. national service around to the end of the 1950s. We expect that, in the coming two to three years, the number should drop away to around 1.5 million veterans and will probably will flatline. Those are the kinds of figures we're dealing with: 1.5 million from that point on, about 16,000 leaving the services, and those sort of percentages of how well they're doing.
I hope that helps.