Army
(asked on 12th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many regular, full-time serving members of the Army there were on the latest date for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 18th April 2016
The full-time trained strength of the UK Army at 1 March 2016 was 79,840.
Statistics are published by Defence Statistics in the Monthly Service Personnel Statistics report. The latest such report which shows figures at 1 March 2016 was published on 14 April 2016 and can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/515805/Monthly_service_personnel_statistics_March_2016.pdf