Armed Forces: Coronavirus
(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applicants withdrew from the (a) Army, (b) Navy and (c) RAF recruitment process in (i) January, (ii) February, (iii) March, (iv) April and (v) June 2020.
The number of applicants who withdrew from the recruitment process between January and June 2020 for the Army, Naval Service (Royal Navy and Royal Marines) and Royal Air Force is shown in the tables below.
The figures provided are for applicants who had applied to join the Regulars.
Army | January | February | March | April | May | June |
Officers | 610 | 610 | 560 | 300 | 280 | 310 |
Other Ranks | 5,380 | 4,820 | 4,200 | 3,970 | 3,740 | 3,920 |
Naval Service | January | February | March | April | May | June |
Officers | 420 | 420 | 660 | 330 | 340 | 450 |
Rating/Other Ranks | 1,570 | 1,280 | 3,510 | 1,000 | 1,480 | 1,340 |
Royal Air Force | January | February | March | April | May | June |
Officers | 480 | 530 | 450 | 350 | 500 | 680 |
Other Ranks | 950 | 840 | 670 | 660 | 760 | 1,310 |
Notes:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 or the nearest multiple of 20 in accordance with rounding protocol.
All figures are single Service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.