Armed Forces: Recruitment

(asked on 14th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British armed forces personnel have been recruited from the British Overseas Territories in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 18th December 2020

The requested information is provided in the following table:

Intake of UK Regulars, British Overseas Territory Citizens, for the last five Financial Years (FY)

FY

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Intake

~

10

10

10

~

Notes:

  1. UK Regulars comprise Full time Service personnel, including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel, Gurkhas, mobilised Reservists, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), High Readiness Reserve (HRR) and Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) personnel. Figures include trained and untrained personnel.
  2. Nationality is as recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) on intake. This does not filter for personnel with dual nationalities, or for personnel whose nationality has changed during the course of their service. British Overseas Territories Citizens include those from Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands.
  3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 in line with disclosure control policy. A figure of 5 or fewer is represented by '~'.
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