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.
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 |