Army

(asked on 22nd January 2024) - View Source
Questioner
Sharon Hodgson Portrait
Sharon Hodgson
(Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) infantry, (b) artillery, (c) armoured and (d) support battalions there were in the Army on 1 January in each of the last eight years.

Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 30th January 2024

The table below show the formations of the Army from 2016-2023. This was extracted from the Government website (Table 6 for the Army):

UK_Armed_Forces_Equipment_and_Formations_2023_tables.xlsx (live.com)

Land Formations of UK Armed Forces

Combat Role and arm/corps

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Combat Forces

61

61

63

63

63

63

62

63

Infantry

46

46

48

48

48

48

48

48

Regular Army Battalions

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

Army Reserves Battalions

14

14

16

16

16

16

16

16

Royal Armoured Corps

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

Regular Army Regiments

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

Army Reserves Regiments

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Combat Support Forces

62

62

62

63

64

64

66

64

Royal Artillery

19

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

Regular Army Regiments

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

Army Reserves Regiments

5

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Royal Engineers

18

17

17

18

18

18

18

18

Regular Army Regiments

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

14

Army Reserves Regiments

4

3

3

4

4

4

4

4

Royal Signals

16

16

16

16

17

17

17

17

Regular Army Regiments

12

12

12

12

13

13

13

13

Army Reserves Regiments

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Intelligence Corps

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

Regular Army Regiments

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Army Reserves Regiments

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

Combat Service Support

71

71

71

66

66

66

67

62

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

14

14

14

11

11

11

12

12

Regular Army Battalions

8

8

8

8

8

8

9

9

Army Reserves Battalions

6

6

6

3

3

3

3

3

Royal Logistic Corps

25

25

25

25

25

25

25

25

Regular Army Regiments

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

13

Army Reserves Regiments

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

Royal Army Medical Corps

26

26

26

24

24

24

24

19

Regular Army Regiments

11

11

11

9

9

9

9

7

Army Reserves Regiments

15

15

15

15

15

15

15

12

Royal Military Police

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Regular Army Regiments

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Army Reserves Regiments

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Corps, Division & Brigade HQ

18

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

NATO Corps HQ

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Division / District HQ

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

Deployable

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Non-deployable

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

4

Brigade HQ

11

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Deployable

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

7

Non-deployable

4

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

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