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Written Question
Army Reserve
Wednesday 15th February 2023

Asked by: Lord Colgrain (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the target size for the number of personnel in the trained strength of the army reserve force; what is the total figure for trained strength of the reserve; and how many recruits there are in each arm or corps of the army reserve.

Answered by Baroness Goldie

As at 1 October 2022, the Army Reserve had a trained strength of 23,030. It is planned to grow to 30,100 under Future Soldier plans, of which c.3,000 will be untrained personnel.

The below table shows a breakdown of recruits, i.e. untrained personnel, in the Army Reserve, as at 01 October 2022:

Arm / Service

Yeomanry

120

Royal Regiment of Artillery

180

Corps of Royal Engineers

210

Royal Corps of Signals

130

Infantry

1,120

Army Air Corps

50

Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

10

The Royal Logistic Corps

310

Royal Army Medical Corps

200

Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

70

Adjutant General’s Corps, Staff & Personnel Support

30

Adjutant General’s Corps, Provost Branch

40

Adjutant General’s Corps, Educational and Training

-

Adjutant General’s Corps, Army Legal Services Branch

-

Royal Army Veterinary Corps

-

Small Arms School Corps

-

Royal Army Dental Corps

-

Intelligence Corps

120

Royal Army Physical Training Corps

-

Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

40

General Service Corps/General List

10

Others

-

Source: Analysis (Army)

Notes/Caveats:

  1. Table 1 figures are for Army Reserve Group A only. Group A is a subset of Volunteer Reserves and includes Mobilised Volunteer Reserves, High Readiness Reserves and OTC support & training staff (it excludes Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS), Additional Duties Commitment (ADC), Volunteer Ex-Regular Reserve (VeRR), Non-Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), and Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI).

  1. Trained figures include all personnel who are Basic Trained. Untrained figures include all personnel who are undergoing Basic Training.

  1. "Others" include Group A personnel serving with UOTC units and those who have yet to be allocated an Arm/Service on the Joint Personnel Administrative System (JPA).

  1. The data has been rounded to the nearest 10 to limit disclosure and ensure confidentiality. "-" denotes zero or rounded to zero.