Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the latest monthly figures for recruitment to the Army Reserve; and how they compare with recruitment targets.

The UK Armed Forces Quarterly Personnel report, which is published by Defence Statistics, shows Reserve trained and untrained strength figures, as well as movements into the Future Reserves 2020 population.

Target figures for recruiting and trained strength are defined for each Financial Year and were set out in the written ministerial statement and paper that the former Defence Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) released to the Library of the House on 19 December 2013, (Official Report, column 124WS).

The trained strength of the Army Reserve as at 1 January 2015 was 20,480 against the March 2015 target of 19,900. The three months to 1 January 2015, intake in to the Army Reserve, trained and untrained strength, was 1,490. This is up from 600 in the equivalent period last year.

The Ministry of Defence does not publish figures for individual months' intake to the Reserves.