Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many soldiers were recruited to the Army Reserve between 2011 and 2015.

The available data on recruitment to the Territorial Army (TA) for Financial Year (FY) 2011-12 was provided in an answer given by the then Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (Andrew Robathan) to the hon. Member for Shipley, (Phillip Davies) on 21 May 2012 (Official Report, column 442-443W). The number of recruits to the TA in FY 2011-12 (excluding the Officer Training Corps) was 4,240.

Figures for intake to the Army Reserve have been captured since FY 2012-13 and were 3,960 in 2012-13 and 2,960 in 2013-14.

The year end total for FY 2014-15 will be released in the Quarterly Personnel Report which will be published in May 2015. The intake to the Army Reserve for the first three quarters of FY 2014-15 was 3,600.