RAF Regiment: Recruitment
(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the shortfall was for the recruitment of reserve and regular gunners and officers in the RAF Regiment in the last 12 months.
The information is not held in the format requested as data is collected by Financial Year, not calendar year.
The table below provides the figures for the RAF Regiment Regular and Reserves Gunner and Officer Intake into Training targets, numbers of individuals recruited and the shortfall of recruitment numbers for the current Financial Year (2016-17), note there are three months of the Financial Year remaining.
RAF Regiment | Target for Intake into Training for Financial Year 2016-17 | Number of individuals Recruited as at 31 December 2016 | Shortfall of Recruitment Numbers as at 31 December 2016 |
Reserve Gunner | 137 | 109 | 28 |
Reserve Officer | 7 | 1 | 6 |
Regular Gunner | 200 | 146 | 54 |
Regular Officer | 24 | 24 | 0 |