Armed Forces

(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent personnel served in the armed forces in each year since 2010.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

Statistics for the strength of UK Armed Forces between 2012 and 2020, for both Regular and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel, have been published by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) which can be found in Table 1 of the Service Personnel Statistics report at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2020

Prior to this, the MOD Armed Forces Personnel Statistics provided the Strength of UK Armed Forces for full time trained and untrained personnel between 2009 and 2012, which can be found at the following link:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/280455/1_june_2012.pdf

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