The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Philip Hammond)
The Ministry of Defence Votes A estimate 2012-13, will be laid before the House on 8 February 2012 as HC 1735. This outlines the maximum numbers of personnel to be maintained for each service in the armed forces during financial year 2012-13.
These numbers do not constitute the trained requirement of the armed forces, which are published separately in the UK armed forces quarterly manning report.