Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November to Question 114677 on Army resignations, when he expects to provide the answer to that question.

The number of personnel who have left each Army Arm/Corps between 1 January 2017 to 30 September 2017 is shown below.

These figures are for trained and untrained strength and therefore include those recruits who failed to complete Phase 1 training.

Notes:

Those figures marked ‘Regulars’ includes personnel who left Regular, Gurkha’s, Full Time Reserve Service Full Commitment (FTRS (FC)) (excluding Lead First).

Those figures marked ‘Army Future Reserves 20’ include volunteer reserves who are mobilised, High Readiness Reserves and those volunteer reserves serving on Full Time Reserve Service and Additional Duties Commitment. Sponsored Reserves who provide a more cost effective solution than volunteer reserve are also included.

Personnel who transferred between the Regular, Gurkha’s and FTRS (FC) populations and FR20 populations are included in the outflow figures.

Personnel who transfer between Arm/Corps are not included.

Figures are for both untrained and trained strength.

All Officers of Paid Rank Colonel and above are included in Staff, regardless of late Arm/Service.

Regular officers (excluding Professionally Qualified Officers) join the Army as Officer Cadets in the General Service Corps. Regular soldiers are recruited into a specific Arms/Corps upon entry to Phase 1 training; however they are not officially allocated to an Arm/Service until after completion of Phase 1 training.

For presentation purpose, figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

“-” denotes zero or rounded to zero.