Royal Irish Regiment

(asked on 10th February 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Gavin Robinson Portrait
Gavin Robinson
(Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people served in the Royal Irish Regiment Home Service Battalions on a part-time basis up to and including disbandment in August 2007.

Answered by
Louise Sandher-Jones Portrait
Louise Sandher-Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2026

The number of part time personnel who served in the Royal Irish Regiment Home Service Battalions from its formation on 1 July 1992 until August 2007 is shown below:

01-Apr-07

-

01-Apr-06

1,170

01-Apr-05

1,210

01-Apr-04

1,300

01-Apr-03

1,390

01-Apr-02

1,500

01-Apr-01

1,680

01-Apr-00

1,780

01-Apr-99

1,910

01-Apr-98

1,960

01-Apr-97

2,010

01-Apr-96

2,120

01-Apr-95

2,260

01-Apr-94

2,480

01-Apr-93

2,700

01-Apr-92

-

Notes:

  • Figures recorded at 01 April of each year so data for 1992 is captured in the 1993 data.
  • By April 2007 all part time personnel had been phased out.
  • Figures have been rounded to 10.
  • Figures are absolute.
  • Figures may not match UK Data Service (UKDS), which is an archived statistical publication preserved on the National Archives web archive and is not revised when data quality improvements are made to the underlying data. Therefore, there may be small differences between the historic Royal Irish (Home Service) figures published in the UKDS archive and those provided in this response.

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