Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trained regular (a) sailors and (b) officers transferred into the Royal Naval Reserve in each year since 2010.

This information is set out in the table below.

Source: Defence Statistics (Tri Service)

Notes:

1. Centrally held data for the Royal Naval Reserve dates back to October 2012. Figures therefore show trained Regular personnel who have left the Royal Navy and were either on the strength of the Royal Naval Reserve as at 1 October 2012 or joined thereafter.

2. Royal Naval Reserve includes mobilised volunteer reserves, High Readiness Reserves, and those volunteer reserves serving on Full Time Reserve Service and Additional Duties Commitments. Sponsored Reserves and University Officer Cadets are excluded.

3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards. Zero is represented by -; ~ represents 5 or fewer.