Armed Forces: Cadets

(asked on 12th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) Sea Cadets, (b) Army Cadet Force, (c) Air Training Corps and (d) Combined Cadet Force in the financial years 2005-06 to 2013-14.


Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 16th October 2014

This information is not held, however, the 2011 Defence Youth Engagement Review estimated the cost of Cadet Forces in financial year 2009-10 to be £154.4 million. Of this total, the breakdown was as follows:

Sea Cadet CorpsArmy Cadet ForceAir Training CorpsCombined Cadet Force
£11.3 million£80.4 million£36.7 million£26 million
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