Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many uniformed British Army personnel are based in the UK, broken down by home nation.

As at 1 July 2021, there are 111,270 British Army Regular, Gurkha and Reserve Personnel based in the UK.

Table 1. Regulars based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021

Table 2. Gurkhas based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021

Table 3. FR20 Reserves based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021

Notes

1. Home Nation is based on Country as recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system. The figures are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work isn't necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
2. UK Regulars figures are comprised of Trained and Untrained 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.
3. Gurkha figures include the Trained and Untrained Gurkha population only. This excludes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.
4. Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) figures include the Trained and Untrained FR20 Reserve population only. This consists of Group A Army Reserves, some Sponsored Reserves and those personnel serving on FTRS contracts who were previously Army Reservists.
5. “-” denotes zero or rounded to zero.
6. Figures have been rounded to 10 to limit disclosure to ensure confidentiality; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not appear to be the sum of their parts.