Armed Forces: Recruitment
(asked on 26th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many male and female enlistments in the armed forces there were in the past year.
This question was answered on 9th May 2016
In the 12 months to 30 September 2015, 12,250 males and 1,330 females joined the UK Regular Armed Forces. In the same period, 380 males and 30 females aged under 18 years left the UK Regular Armed Forces.
A full breakdown of these figures can be found in, respectively, tables six and 11 of our Biannual Diversity Statistics publication (the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet) at the following address:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2015