Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many men (a) applied for, (b) were accepted on and (c) completed the UK Officer Commissioning Course at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for each course since the start of 2015.

The number of men who made Regular Officer applications relevant to the period requested is shown below.

The number of men who attended and completed the UK Officer Commissioning Course at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for each course from January 2015 is shown below.

Notes

The figures above are for Regular Officers only. Figures for Professionally Qualified Officers and Reserves could not be obtained in the time available.

These figures are single service estimates only and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.

Individual applications within table one cannot be directly linked with individual course attendees in table two.

The first table shows the number of applications made by men. Some may have made multiple applications.

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, except where specified; numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Rounding is necessary, as a means of disclosure control and the preservation of anonymity; it also improves the clarity of output and conveys an appropriate level of precision to users.