Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were recruited to the Army in each year since 2017.
The Trained and Untrained Intake to the Regular Army by calendar year since 2017 can be found in the below table.
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Total Regular Intake | 8,024 | 5,779 | 9,743 | 9,797 | 8,943 |
Untrained | 7,365 | 5,305 | 9,210 | 9,098 | 8,561 |
Trained | 659 | 474 | 533 | 699 | 382 |
Officers | 697 | 649 | 623 | 713 | 695 |
Untrained | 633 | 629 | 580 | 658 | 670 |
Trained | 64 | 20 | 43 | 55 | 25 |
Other Ranks | 7,327 | 5,130 | 9,120 | 9,084 | 8,248 |
Untrained | 6,732 | 4,676 | 8,630 | 8,440 | 7,891 |
Trained | 595 | 454 | 490 | 644 | 357 |
Source: Analysis (Army)
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