Armed Forces: West Midlands
(asked on 10th March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving armed forces personnel were recruited from (a) Bromsgrove District, (b) Worcestershire and (c) the West Midlands in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 16th March 2021
The requested information is provided in the following table:
Intake to UK Regular Armed Forces, by Financial Years 2015/16 to 2019/20 | ||||||
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| 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | Total |
Bromsgrove | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 100 |
Worcestershire | 140 | 130 | 120 | 110 | 150 | 640 |
West Midlands | 1,070 | 1,070 | 940 | 900 | 1,300 | 5,280 |
Notes:
- Figures are for untrained personnel on intake, both Officers and Other Ranks.
- Figures exclude Gurkhas. Figures may include personnel who have joined more than once during the time period. Untrained Army inflow includes those people who joined as non-Trade-Trained. This will include people who have completed their phase 1 training (also known as basic training) and inflow direct into phase 2 training.
- Home addresses at the point of recruitment have been identified from contact postcodes recorded in the Defence Recruitment System (DRS).
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 in line with disclosure control policy. Figures ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid bias.