Army: Recruitment
(asked on 20th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, How many new recruits have joined each regiment of the British Army in 2017.
The following table shows the number of Untrained Regular, Gurkha’s and Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) Intake of each Army Arm/Corps from 1 January 2017 to
30 September 2017.
Arm/Service | Regulars | Army Future Reserves 20 |
Staff | - | - |
Household Cavalry/ Royal Armoured Corps | 340 | 110 |
Royal Regiment of Artillery | 420 | 150 |
Corps of Royal Engineers | 560 | 150 |
Royal Corps of Signals | 260 | 120 |
Infantry | 1,820 | 700 |
Army Air Corps | 60 | 20 |
Royal Army Chaplains' Department | 10 | - |
Royal Logistic Corps | 790 | 270 |
Royal Army Medical Corps | 250 | 230 |
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 580 | 120 |
Adjutant General's Corps | 190 | 90 |
Royal Army Veterinary Corps | 20 | 20 |
Royal Army Dental Corps | 10 | - |
Intelligence Corps | 40 | 110 |
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps | 30 | 50 |
Corps of Army Music | 30 | - |
General Service Corps/ General List | 590 | 30 |
Officer Training Corps | - | 40 |
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Notes:
Those figures marked ‘Regulars’ include Regulars and Gurkha’s untrained intake. Full Time Reserve Service (Full Commitment) (FTRS (FC)) population have not been included in the figures as they must be trained on starting their FTRS engagement and have previous service within the Armed Force.
Those figures marked ‘Army Future Reserves 20’ (FR20) include volunteer reserves that are mobilised, High Readiness Reserves and those volunteer reserves serving on Full Time Reserve Service and Additional Duties Commitment. Sponsored Reserves who provide a more cost effective solution than volunteer reserve are also included.
Personnel who transferred between the untrained Regular populations and the untrained FR20 populations are included in the inflow figures. Intake to untrained FR20 populations could include personnel coming from any other reserve population not included in the FR20.
Regular officers (excluding Professionally Qualified Officers) join the Army as Officer Cadets in the General Service Corps.
Professionally Qualified Officers (PQO) commission on entry to the appropriate Regiment/Arm/Service on enlistment.
All Officers of Paid Rank Colonel and above are included in Staff, regardless of late Arm/Service.
Figures are for untrained intake from 1st Jan 2017 to 30th Sept 2017, who inflow to Phase 1 training, as well as those who direct entry into Phase 2 Training upon joining the Army.
For presentation purpose, figures have been rounded to 10; 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.
“-” denotes zero or rounded to zero.