Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the regular Army’s full-time trained strength was in each of the last 12 months.

The regular Army’s full time trained strength is shown below:

Notes/Caveats:

The above figures are for the Full Time Trained Regular Army only and therefore excludes Gurkhas and Full Time Reserve Service and therefore the numbers above are not counted against the 82k target.

The definition of 'Trained' changed in October 2016 to include both Trade Trained Personnel and those personnel undergoing Phase 2 Training and therefore the numbers above are not counted against the 82k target.

Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes, numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.