Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits to the (a) Reserve and (b) armed forces in each local authority area of their origin in Wales and in each branch of service began their basic training in each of the last 12 months

Information on the local authority of origin for recruits to the Regular and Reserve forces is not available.

The date at which personnel started their basic training is also not held.

The Ministry of Defence publishes UK Regular strengths by stationed location in our Quarterly Location Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index

Information on untrained intake into the Volunteer Reserve by stationed location in Wales is provided in the attached table.