Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 116564, how many of the 4,350 ex-regular service personnel on the Reserve ex-regular commitment bonus scheme were of the rank of (a) private or equivalent, (b) Lance Corporal or equivalent, (c) Corporal or equivalent, (c) Sergeant or equivalent, (d) Staff Sergeant or equivalent, (e) Sergeant Major (WO2) or equivalent, (f) Sergeant Major (WO1) or equivalent, (g) 2nd Lieutenant, (h) Lieutenant and (i) Captain; and if he will make a statement.

The number of personnel on the Reserve ex-regular commitment bonus scheme, as at 1 October 2017, and their rank at the time of acceptance onto the scheme, is shown below:

Notes:

The above figures are single Service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics. For Presentational purposes, the figures have been rounded to ten.