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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) I recently visited our local sea cadets in Scunthorpe to see their new and improved facilities, which - Speech Link


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Defence

Mar. 07 2024

Source Page: Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics: 2024
Document: (ODS)

Found: , Serving Regular Reserves, Sponsored Reserves, and FTRS of unknown origin.


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Ministry of Defence

Mar. 07 2024

Source Page: Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics: 2024
Document: (Excel)

Found: Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) and University Officer Cadets


Lords Chamber
Military National Service - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) country and its allies. - Speech Link
2: Lord Fowler (XB - Life peer) Otherwise, you would not have had conscripts keeping lists of days and hours left to do, and the most - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) His Majesty’s Government are making to reinforce the services, including increasing the numbers of reserves - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The current mix that we have in the Army is about 70,000 ground troops and about 30,000 reserves. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) In a past life, I had something to do with cadets and I also trained Junior Leaders soldiers. - Speech Link


Select Committee
Harper Adams University, Forces Farming, McDonald's, and Tristram Plants

Oral Evidence Mar. 05 2024

Inquiry: Education and Careers in Land-based Sectors
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Harper Adams University, Forces Farming, McDonald's, and Tristram Plants Oral Evidence


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Feb. 06 2024

Source Page: Volunteer Estate Value for Money study report
Document: Volunteer Estate Value for Money Study Report (PDF)

Found: has grown to encompass Reserves and Cadets of all three Services and key Defence outputs.


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Feb. 06 2024

Source Page: Volunteer Estate Value for Money study report
Document: (webpage)

Found: has grown to encompass Reserves and Cadets of all three Services and key Defence outputs.


Select Committee
First Report - Ready for War?

Report Feb. 04 2024

Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: the reserves.” 132 66.


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
NHS England

Jan. 25 2024

Source Page: NHS England: annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
Document: NHS England: annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 (print ready) (PDF)

Found: NHS England: annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023


Written Question
Armed Forces: Recruitment
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Asked by: Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many men and women were recruited into the armed forces reserves in each of the past five years; and how many vacancies are there currently.

Answered by Earl of Minto - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

Data on recruitment into the three Services is presented in the tables below.

The Integrated Review and Spending Review (IR/SR) introduced greater flexibility in how Defence could employ its workforce types (Armed Forces Regular, Reserve, Defence Civilian and Contractors). This has made the continued use of a fixed workforce requirement for individual components of the Whole Force less appropriate. We are in the process of agreeing a new Indicative Planned Strength (IPS) which reflects both the Whole Force Strategic Workforce plans that are being finalised and changes in organisational structure introduced following the IR/SR. Comparison of the IPS and published statistics on Armed Forces strength will make any shortfalls evident.

Table 1: UK Regular1 Personnel Intake2 by Gender4 in the past five years5 in each Service

1 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2019

1 Oct 2019 to 30 Sep 2020

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2021

1 Oct 2021 to 30 Sep 2022

1 Oct 2022 to 30 Sep 2023

Total

14,880

14,590

17,070

11,980

10,470

Female

1,600

1,630

1,940

1,420

1,220

Male

13,280

12,960

15,130

10,570

9,250

RN/RM

3,290

3,780

3,950

3,160

2,400

Female

350

390

420

310

280

Male

2,940

3,400

3,520

2,850

2,120

Army

9,080

8,470

10,600

6,760

6,310

Female

820

880

1,030

730

660

Male

8,260

7,590

9,570

6,030

5,650

RAF

2,510

2,330

2,520

2,060

1,760

Female

440

360

490

380

280

Male

2,080

1,970

2,040

1,680

1,480

Source: Analysis (Tri-Service)

Table 2: FR203 Personnel Intake by Gender4 in the Past five Financial Years5 in each Service

1 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2019

1 Oct 2019 to 30 Sep 2020

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2021

1 Oct 2021 to 30 Sep 2022

1 Oct 2022 to 30 Sep 2023

Total

5,710

5,020

5,700

3,720

3,780

Female

900

760

950

600

540

Male

4,820

4,270

4,750

3,120

3,240

RM/RN

970

800

770

350

470

Female

150

150

150

70

50

Male

820

640

610

280

420

Army

4,080

3,680

4,440

2,890

2,880

Female

540

470

690

400

390

Male

3,540

3,210

3,750

2,490

2,490

RAF

660

550

500

480

430

Female

200

130

110

130

100

Male

460

420

390

350

330

Source: Analysis (Tri-Service)

Notes/Caveats:

1. UK Regulars comprise Full time Service personnel, including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service personnel, Gurkhas, mobilised Reservists, Military Provost Guard Service, Locally Engaged Personnel, Non Regular Permanent Staff, High Readiness Reserve and Expeditionary Forces Institute personnel. Unless otherwise stated, includes Trained and Untrained personnel.

2. Intake comprises all personnel joining the Armed Forces either as new entrants or re-entrants.

3. Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) includes Volunteer Reserves who are mobilised, High Readiness Reserve (HRR) and Volunteer Reserve personnel serving on Additional Duties Commitment or Full Time Reserve Service contracts. Sponsored Reserves who provide a more cost effective solution than volunteer reserve are also included in the Army Reserve FR20. Non Regular Permanent Staff, Expeditionary Forces Institute, University Officer Cadets and Regular Reservists are excluded.

4. Gender is a self-reported field on the Joint Personnel Administration System.

5. The yearly Intake-Periods are defined as the 12 months ending 30 September for each respective year.

6. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 in line with disclosure control policy. Figures ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias. Please note that due to rounding, the total figures in the above tables may not equal the corresponding sum of figures for each Service.

7. These figures can be found in Tables 7 and 23 in the last five October Editions of the "UK Armed Forces Biannual Diversity Statistics" published on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-index