Air Force: Recruitment

(asked on 15th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were recruited to the Royal Air Force in each year since 2017.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 21st June 2022

The information requested is provided in the following table.

31-Dec-2017

31-Dec-2018

31-Dec-2019

31-Dec-2020

31-Dec-2021

Totals

2,004

2,225

2,607

2,247

2,449

untrained

1,956

2,170

2,478

2,058

2,394

trained

48

55

129

189

55

Officers

330

420

359

342

331

untrained

311

392

313

228

313

trained

19

28

46

114

18

Other Ranks

1,674

1,805

2,248

1,905

2,118

untrained

1,645

1,778

2,165

1,830

2,081

trained

29

27

83

75

37

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