Army: Training
(asked on 30th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of army recruits aged (a) under 18 and (b) over 18-years old were injured out of training in the most recent year for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 19th April 2017
Between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016, 267 untrained Army personnel were medically discharged with musculoskeletal disorders and injuries, of these, 11 were under the age of 18. This is set against a backdrop of an untrained average yearly intake over the past three training years of 7,050 of which 1,790 are under 18.