Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many commonwealth nationals joined the British armed forces in each year since 2010.

The table below provides the intake of Untrained Regular Commonwealth Nationals into the British Armed Forces each financial year from 2010:

1. Figures are for the Regulars only and therefore excludes Full Time Reserve Service personnel, Gurkhas, mobilised Reservists, all other Reserves, Military Provost Guard Service, Locally Employed Personnel and Non-Regular Permanent Staff.

2. The figures in the table refer to untrained personnel.

3. Nationality is self-recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration system. Nationality has been used for the Commonwealth grouping and therefore may reflect nationality at birth, but not the status under which they were recruited.

4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, with the exception of numbers ending in a

“5” which have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.