Army: Discharges
(asked on 19th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many early service leavers from the Infantry enlisted (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 in each of the last five years.
The number of early service leavers from the Infantry is shown in the following table:
Calendar Year | |||||
Age on Entry | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 1st Jan 14 to 30th Nov 14 |
Under 18 | 670 | 620 | 560 | 360 | 320 |
18 and Over | 1,110 | 1,410 | 1,160 | 920 | 700 |
Notes:
The figures are for Trained and Untrained Regular Army Other Ranks and Officers and therefore excludes all Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves.
The figures are for those individuals who left the Army with an Infantry Arm/Service recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration System (JPA) at the point they left. It is possible that a small number of those contained within the figures above were assigned to a non-Infantry Arm/Service when joining the Army, and then subsequently at some point in their Army career transferred to the Infantry.
Figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.