Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the progress on recruitment of Army reservists against his Department's target of 30,000 by 2019.

Statistics showing enlistment into the Reserves are published by Defence Statistics in the Quarterly Personnel Report. The latest such report was published in February 2015.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-quarterly-personnel-report-2015

For ease of reference I am attaching the relevant page from this report.

The trained strength of the Army Reserve has risen by 560 in the past 12 months to 20,480, this is above our target for the year end of 19, 900.

I am confident that the plans of the Chief of the General Staff will be achieved.