Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Army Reserve total intake was for each month in the last two years.

Intake into the Army reserve for each month over the last two years is show below:

Notes:

The Army FR20 population consists of Group A Army Reserves, some Sponsored Reserves and those personnel serving on Full Time Reserve Service contracts who were previously Army Reservists.

The figures include untrained & trained personnel.

Figures include soldier, officer and JPA officer cadets.

Inflow includes people joining from outside the UK Armed Forces and those transferring from other parts of the UK Armed Forces.

Inflow includes people joining from outside the UK Armed Forces and those transferring from other parts of the UK Armed Forces.

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.