Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the army restructure on the number of personnel in the infantry.
The small reduction in the size of the Army will ensure a force that will be more effectively matched to current and future threats. The significant reorganisation of force structures and re-balancing between arms and services will result in a small reduction in the numbers of the Infantry. There will be no redundancies to military personnel and the workforce will be re-apportioned to other roles in the Army.