Army: Deployment
(asked on 29th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many regular and reserve conventional UK Army personnel from (a) Infantry, (b) Royal Artillery, (c) Royal Corps of Signals, (d) Army Medical Services, (e) Adjutant General's Corps, (f) Royal Armoured Corps, (g) Army Air Corps, (h) Royal Engineers, (i) Royal Logistics Corps, (j) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and (k) Intelligence Corps were deployed in each of the (i) 2012-13 (ii) 2013-14 (iii) 2014-15 (iv) 2015-16 and (v) 2016-17 financial years.
The table below shows the number of Regular and Reserve Personnel, officer and other ranks, deployed in each of the last five years by the Corps/Arm’s requested.
| Deployments of personnel by Corps/Arms and Financial Year1 |
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Infantry | 13,465 | 8,073 | 5,662 | 3,484 | 3,400 |
Royal Regiment of Artillery | 3,508 | 2,095 | 1,062 | 309 | 282 |
Royal Corps of Signals | 3,256 | 2,286 | 1,449 | 642 | 640 |
Royal Army Medical Corps | 1,288 | 897 | 724 | 340 | 337 |
Adjutant General's Corps | 124 | 87 | 62 | 21 | 39 |
Royal Armoured Corps | 2,259 | 1,345 | 764 | 177 | 169 |
Army Air Corps | 686 | 474 | 225 | 49 | 24 |
Corps of Royal Engineers | 3,963 | 2,227 | 1,398 | 714 | 1,112 |
The Royal Logistic Corps | 5,788 | 3,632 | 2,405 | 782 | 805 |
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 3,500 | 2,453 | 1,241 | 419 | 400 |
Intelligence Corps | 829 | 698 | 464 | 282 | 339 |
Deployment refers to Military personnel who are deployed on operations for a period of 24 hours or more, excluding all personnel on overseas training excercises and those whose permanent stationed location is outside the UK.
Note:
1. Out of Theatre personnel (personnel away from their stationed location, but not ‘deployed') have been excluded.
2. Some personnel will have been deployed on multiple occasions but only appear in the table once.