Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Government officials were members of the Reserve Forces in each year since 2010; and how many such officials have joined the Reserve Forces since 25 October 2013.
This information is not held in the format requested. There is currently no single method of centrally tracking the number of civil servants joining the Reserve Forces across Government, but work is ongoing to refine this process. As at 1 April 2014, rounded to the nearest 10, there were 810 Ministry of Defence civil servants who were also members of the Volunteer Reserves