Army: Recruitment
(asked on 23rd October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of Army (a) officers and (b) regular soldiers are recruited from (i) Scotland, (ii) England and Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland.
This question was answered on 28th October 2015
The proportion of regular Army officers and soldiers recruited from each country of the United Kingdom for 2014-15 is shown below:
Regular | Officer | Soldier |
England | 88.4% | 80.6% |
Scotland | 4.7% | 8.9% |
Wales | 4.7% | 6.3% |
N Ireland | 1.4% | 2.5% |
Other | 0.8% | 1.7% |
The locations shown reflect the contact addresses recorded and may not be the home address. ‘Other’ refers to non-UK contact addresses, or those not identifiable, but does not include Gurkhas.