Army: Recruitment

(asked on 10th March 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown Portrait
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
(Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people from Northern Ireland applied to join the British Army in each of the last three years.

Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 17th March 2015

The number of applications to join the Army from Northern Ireland over the last three years is as follows:

Northern Ireland

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15 (to 28 February)

Regular

1,720

1,810

1,840

Reserve

1,200

1,030

1,450

Since the Recruit Partnering Project between the Army and Capita started operations in April 2013, applications have been carried out online and processed centrally. In order to align data for the years in question to the geographical boundaries of Northern Ireland the postcodes of candidates have been used. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.

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