Reserve Forces: Labour Turnover
(asked on 14th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the retention figures for members of the reserve forces in the UK for the last three years for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 26th January 2016
The requested information is provided in the following table:
Future Reserve 2020 Volunteer Reserve Strength Retention – Tri-Service
Financial Year (FY) | Strength at beginning of FY | Retained strength at end of FY of those people | Retained (%) |
2012-13 (Army Reserve only) | 25,980 | 21,730 | 83.6 |
2013-14 | 29,390 | 24,460 | 83.2 |
2014-15 | 28,150 | 24,430 | 86.8 |
Notes:
- Retention rates have been calculated using a cohort of personnel on strength as at 1 April each year and checking whether each is on strength at each subsequent April point. Personnel who have left and rejoined during these periods will be counted as retained.
- Centrally held data dates back to April 2012 for the Army Reserve and October 2012 for the Maritime Reserve and Royal Air Force Reserves. As a result of this Army Reserve retention statistics have been provided for those on strength as at 1 April 2012 and Future Reserve 2020 Volunteer Reserve statistics have been provided for subsequent years.
- The FR20 Volunteer Reserve population includes mobilised volunteer reserves, High Readiness Reserves (HRR) and those volunteer reserves serving on Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) and Additional Duties Commitments (ADC). Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI), Sponsored Reserves and University Officer Cadets are excluded.
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.
- Percentages are calculated from unrounded data and are reported to 1 decimal place.