Armed Forces: Training
(asked on 10th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) warrant officers of each rank are based at each officer training establishment.
The requested breakdown by rank of trained UK Regular Officers and Warrant Officers based at each officer training establishment, as at 1 April 2015, is provided in the following table:
| NATO Rank | Britannia Royal Naval College (Dartmouth) | Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (Lympstone) | Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst) | Royal Air Force College (Cranwell) |
| OF-7 | - | ~ | ~ | - |
| OF-6 | - | - | ~ | - |
| OF-5 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| OF-4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| OF-3 | 10 | 30 | 40 | 30 |
| OF-2 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 90 |
| OF-1 | - | 20 | ~ | ~ |
| OR-9 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| OR-8 | - | 40 | 30 | - |
Note: Figures are rounded and may not equal the sums of their rounded parts. When rounding to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. "~" denotes fewer than 5 and “-” denotes zero. Trained UK Regular Forces does not include Gurkhas, full-time reserve personnel and mobilised reservists. NATO Rank Codes equivalence in UK Service Rank (Army) is as follows: OF-7 Major General; OF-6 Brigadier; OF-5 Colonel; OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel; OF-3 Major; OF-2 Captain; OF-1 Lieutenant/2nd Lieutenant; OR-9 Warrant Officer Class-1; OR-8 Warrant Officer Class-2.