Army: Recruitment
(asked on 21st May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits were enlisted into the regular army in financial year 2018-19.
This question was answered on 4th June 2019
The total number of personnel enlisted and commissioned, in the case of Officers, into the regular Army in 2018-19 was 6,985. Of this 6,315 were soldiers and 640 officers. In addition, a further 400 Gurkhas were enlisted into the Brigade of Gurkhas.