Speeches

Kevan Jones – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevan Jones on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out what his Department’s expenditure on television recruitment campaigns was for the (a) army and (b) army reserve in each of the last five years.

Penny Mordaunt

The table below details how much each of the three Services spent on television recruitment campaigns for both Regular and Reserve Armed Forces personnel in each of the last five financial years.

Financial Year/Service

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

£ millions

Royal Navy

1.80

1.50

2.80

4.45

7.46

Army

Not held

Not held

2.99*

1.28

1.42**

Royal Air Force

3.1

2.25

2.67

3.92

*From 1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013

**Figure for Financial Year 2014-15 is less than previously reported. This is because the previous figure included production and other costs.