Armed Forces: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trained regular Commonwealth nations armed forces personnel joined the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy in each year since 2010.
The requested information is provided in the table below:
Intake of personnel from Commonwealth countries to UK Regular Forces, by Service, in each calendar year since 2010
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Royal Navy/Royal Marines | 80 | 40 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 10 |
Of which, trained | ~ | ~ | - | ~ | - | - |
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Army | 350 | 610 | 660 | 510 | 100 | 70 |
Of which, trained | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | - | 10 |
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Royal Air Force | 10 | ~ | 10 | 10 | ~ | 10 |
Of which, trained | - | ~ | - | ~ | - | - |
Notes
1. UK Regular Forces comprise Full-time personnel but do not include Gurkhas or Full Time Reserve Service personnel.
2. Intake to UK Regular Forces Comprises new entrants, re-entrants, direct trained entrants (including Professionally Qualified Officers) and intake from the Reserves. It excludes all movements within the Regular Forces; including flows from the untrained to trained strength, transfers between Services and flows from Ranks to Officer due to promotion.
3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, and numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and may not equal the sum of their rounded parts. Zero is represented as ‘-‘ and numbers which are 5 or fewer are represented as ‘~’.