Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK service personnel are permanently stationed at the British Army Training Unit Suffield.

As at October 2025 (latest figures available), the numbers of service personnel currently stationed at British Army Training Unit Suffield are below:

Number of UK Regular¹ Armed Forces Service Personnel Stationed² at BATUS³, Suffield, Canada as at 1 October 25

Notes

1. UK Regulars comprise full time service personnel, including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel, Gurkhas, Mobilised Reservists, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Non-Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), High Readiness Reserve (HRR) and Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) personnel. Includes trained and untrained personnel.

2. The figures are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their location of residence - where personnel work isn't necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location. The Royal Navy/Royal Marines personnel on sea service are included against the local authority containing the home port of their ship.
3. BATUS has been derived from the Location Units CANADA - ALBERTA - SUFFIELD and SUFFIELD (BATUS) from the Location Unit field in Joint Personnel Administration (JPA).

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure. However, numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.