Army

(asked on 15th June 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
(Conservative - Bournemouth East)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) infantry, (b) artillery, (c) armoured and (d) support battalions there were in the British Army as of 15 June 2022.

Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 21st June 2022

Number of Battalions/Regiments

Regular

Reserve

Infantry

32

16

Artillery

12

6

Armoured

9

4

Support

63

46

Table notes:

  1. Support regiments and battalions are made up of Royal Engineers, Royal Signals, Army Air Corps, Royal Logistics Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Intelligence Corps.

  1. Units without an operational output have been excluded. For example, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland which perform a purely ceremonial function, and training regiments such as 2 (Training) Regiment, Army Air Corps.

  1. Army regiments/battalions in other TLBs, for example UK Strategic Command, have been included.

  1. This data is a single Service estimate and is not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.

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