Army: Discharges

(asked on 20th June 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
(Conservative - Bournemouth East)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel left the British Army in each year from 2017 to date.

Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 28th June 2022

The information requested can be found in the following table.

Army Regular Outflow by Financial Year 2016-17 – 2021-22

Financial Year

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

Army Outflow

9,775

9,650

9,046

9,533

7,431

8,856

Trained*

7,881

8,329

7,985

7,669

5,361

6,684

Untrained

1,894

1,321

1,061

1,864

2,070

2,172

Officers

949

906

904

936

745

856

Trained*

894

848

854

900

715

805

Untrained

55

58

50

36

30

51

Other Ranks

8,826

8,744

8,142

8,597

6,686

8,000

Trained*

6,987

7,481

7,131

6,769

4,646

5,879

Untrained

1,839

1,263

1,011

1,828

2,040

2,121

*These figures are for all personnel who have outflowed having completed Phase 1 training and include personnel outflowing from Trade Trained Strength and personnel outflowing from Phase 2 training.

Notes/caveats:

  1. The figures are for Regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves, but includes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.
  2. Figures show outflow from the Regular Army, both trained and untrained, including personnel leaving the Services, deaths and recalled reservists on release. They do not include promotion from Ranks to Officers or personnel who leave the Army to join the Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Royal Air Force.

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