Armed Forces: Recruitment
(asked on 1st April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's recruitment targets for the armed forces are for 2025-26.
This question was answered on 7th April 2025
As the hon. Gentleman will know, the current Government inherited a crisis in recruitment and retention from the last administration. We have made a series of announcements to improve recruitment since July 2024.
The 2025-26 Single Service recruitment targets are detailed below:
Royal Navy – 3,890
Army – 10,200
Royal Air Force – 3,230
These figures are the totals for Regular Service personnel only and are rounded to the nearest 10.