Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding the size of the Army Reserve.
As part of Future Soldier, the Army Reserve will be better integrated with the Regular Army with a whole force of over 100,000, comprising of 73,000 Regular Service personnel and 30,100 Army Reserve personnel. This means the Army Reserve now has a dedicated warfighting role and has primacy for UK resilience tasks.