Army
(asked on 16th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving regular army personnel have served for more than three years.
The number of Regular Army personnel who have served for more than three years is shown below:
| Total Regular Army Strength | Length of Service is 3 years or more |
Total | 82,210 | 64,520 |
Source: Defence Statistics (Army) |
Figures shown are as at 1 October 2017.
The figures are for trained and untrained Regular Army personnel and exclude the Gurkhas and Army Future Reserve 2020 populations.
Figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.