Armed Forces: Recruitment

(asked on 3rd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of reservists that have joined the regular armed forces in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 6th July 2018

The number of Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) Service personnel leaving to join the UK Regular Forces over the last five years is shown below.

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

250

340

440

520

490

  • The figures only include direct transfers from the FR20 population. Figures do not include cadets leaving the University Officer Training Corps, University Air Squadron and University Royal Navy Unit to join the UK Regular forces.

  • Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

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