Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average cost of recruitment to the Army was in each of the last three full years for which figures are available.
Recruiting for the Army is delivered through the Recruiting Partnering Project; a 10 year output based contractual arrangement with a commercial partner. Under this partnership the costs of recruitment to Defence are shown below. These costs include recruiting services, IT systems, military salaries and infrastructure.
Financial Year | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Total | £182 million | £136 million | £148 million |
These figures are single service estimates and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.