Reserve Forces: Recruitment

(asked on 9th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of people joining the reserves from the regular armed forces in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 12th July 2018

The number of UK Regular Service personnel joining the Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) over the last five years is shown below.

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

310

460

710

710

710

Notes: these figures include only direct transfers from Regulars to the FR20 population, without a gap.

Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, except for numbers ending in a 5 which have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

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