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Written Question
Armed Forces: Gurkhas
Thursday 13th March 2025

Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 33147 on Armed Forces: Commonwealth, which (a) units and (b) independent sub-units form the Brigade of Gurkhas; and which regular armed forces units include Nepalese service personnel.

Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)

The units and independent sub-units which form the Brigade of Gurkhas; and the Regular Armed Forces units that include Nepalese Service personnel are shown in the tables below.

Table 1: Units and Independent Sub-Units that form the Brigade of Gurkhas

Unit / Sub-Unit

Brigade of Gurkhas Capbadges

1st Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR)

2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR)

The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers (QGE)

The Queen’s Gurkha Signals (QG SIGNALS)

Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment (QOGLR)

Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas (Band BG)

Gurkha Staff & Personnel Support (GSPS)

Extra Regimentally Employed (ERE) Units

British Gurkhas Nepal (BGN)

Gurkha ARRC Support Battalion (GARRC Sp Bn)

ERE Sub-Units

Gurkha Company Catterick

Gurkha Company Babaji

Gurkha Company Sittang

Gurkha Company Tavoleto

Gurkha Company Mandalay

A (Krithia) Company, 1 RANGER

F (Falklands) Company, 2 RANGER

G (Coriano) Company, 4 RANGER

Table 2: Units in UK Regular Armed Forces which include Nepalese Service personnel

Army Arm/Services

Army Air Corps

Adjutant General’s Corps

Royal Army Physical Training Corps

Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps

Infantry

Other

Royal Corps of Signals

Royal Regiment of Artillery

Royal Army Medical Services

Royal Corps of Army Music

Corps of Royal Engineers

Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Royal Logistic Corps

Small Arms School Corps

Royal Navy/Marines

RN Engineer GS (OF)

RN Logistics GS

RN Royal Marines GS

RAF

RAF Engineering

RAF Logistics

Source: Analysis Tri-Service

Notes to Table 2

  1. UK Regulars comprise of Full time Service personnel, including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel, Gurkhas, mobilised Reservists, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Non-Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), High Readiness Reserve (HRR) and Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) personnel. Unless otherwise stated, includes trained and untrained personnel.
  2. Nationality is as self-declared on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA).
  3. JPA data is based on primary nationality and people can have a second nationality recorded.
  4. There are a large number of Gurkha personnel who have taken the opportunity to naturalise once they moved to the UK Regulars, some of these may have subsequently joined different Arm/Services than the ones listed in Table 2.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Black Watch (300th Anniversary) - Thu 27 Mar 2025

Mentions:
1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) the 1715 Jacobite rebellion; notes that a further four companies were raised in 1739 to form the Regiment - Speech Link
2: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) Nonetheless, it is a tangible thread through the illustrious history of the regiment. - Speech Link
3: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) Regiment headquarters in Belfast. - Speech Link
4: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) In 1947, the regiment was granted the freedom of the city of Perth. - Speech Link

Written Question
Ranger Regiment
Friday 15th March 2024

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel there are in the Ranger Regiment of the British Army.

Answered by James Heappey

As of 1 January 2024, there were 1,040 Regular Army Personnel serving in the Ranger Regiment.

Please note the following notes/caveats from Analysis (Army):

  1. This figure represents Trade Trained Regular and Gurkha Army only and therefore excludes Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves and all other Reserves.

  1. The figure includes all personnel who are serving in a battalion within the Ranger Regiment.

  1. As the Ranger Regiment is still an evolving organisation, the above information includes all personnel serving in a Ranger Battalion, some of which may not be Rangers. Figures therefore include attached Arms and are not comparable to figures for other Infantry Regiments.

  1. The figure includes Gurkhas serving in Ranger Units.

  1. The figure has been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.
Deposited Papers
Ministry of Defence

Apr. 08 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 02/04/2024 from Andrew Murrison MP to Sarah Jones MP in response to written questions concerning the Intelligence Corps, Parachute Regiment, Royal Marine Commando Forces and Ranger Regiment: headcounts, leavers and recruitment targets. 2p. II. Annexes: tables. 5p.
Document: Letter_PQ_response_to_Sarah_Jones_MP.pdf (PDF)

Found: to Sarah Jones MP in response to written questions concerning the Intelligence Corps, Parachute Regiment

Deposited Papers
Ministry of Defence

Apr. 08 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 02/04/2024 from Andrew Murrison MP to Sarah Jones MP in response to written questions concerning the Intelligence Corps, Parachute Regiment, Royal Marine Commando Forces and Ranger Regiment: headcounts, leavers and recruitment targets. 2p. II. Annexes: tables. 5p.
Document: Attachment-Annex_A_to_Sarah_Jones_MP_PQ_response.pdf (PDF)

Found: to Sarah Jones MP in response to written questions concerning the Intelligence Corps, Parachute Regiment

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Aug. 09 2024

Source Page: AUKUS takes another step forward with real-time AI trials
Document: AUKUS takes another step forward with real-time AI trials (webpage)

Found: Project Convergence, drawn from: 1 Deep Recce Brigade Combat Team 2nd Battalion the Royal Yorkshire Regiment

Written Question
Ranger Regiment: Deployment
Friday 15th March 2024

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many deployments have the Ranger Regiment participated in since 2021.

Answered by James Heappey

Since 2021, the British Army’s Ranger Regiment has conducted 691 deployments.

Public Bill Committees
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th Sitting - Thu 12 Dec 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) does tend to be quite complicated: if Corporal Thomas Atkins of the 1st Battalion the Lone Shire Regiment - Speech Link
2: None Wiltshire—let us assume, for argument’s sake, that they were based at Tidworth garrison—but if their regiment - Speech Link

Written Question
Ranger Regiment
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the headcount was of the Ranger Regiment on every 1 January since its creation.

Answered by Andrew Murrison

It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's questions. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.

Written Question
Ranger Regiment
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment target and (b) actual number of joiners was to the Ranger Regiment for each year since its creation.

Answered by Andrew Murrison

It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's questions. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.