Jim Shannon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were recruited to the (a) army, (b) Royal Air Force, (c) Royal Navy and (d) reserve forces in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
Mr Philip Dunne
The following tables show the number of people recruited into each Service of the Armed Forces in Northern Ireland in each of the last five financial years (FY).
Royal Navy: Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Marine (RM) personnel recruited through Armed Forces Career Office, Northern Ireland
|
FY |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
Regular (RN and RM) |
40 |
40 |
45 |
60 |
45 |
|
Reserve (RNR and RMR) |
35 |
20 |
25 |
25 |
20 |
Army
|
FY |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
Regular |
250 |
290 |
270 |
200 |
200 |
|
Reserve |
190 |
380 |
280 |
90 |
90 |
Note: information is based on the post code on the applicants contact address.
RAF: Regular Other Ranks Recruitment through Armed Forces Careers Office, Belfast
|
FY |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
Other Ranks |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
20 |
Note: Information relating to Officer and Aircrew recruitment in Northern Ireland is not available.
RAF Reserve Recruitment
|
FY |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
Reserves |
~ |
– |
– |
20* |
60* |
Note:
~ = Information not available.
*= estimated figures.
Figures have been rounded to 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid systematic bias.
The data on Reserves supersedes the estimated figures for the Royal Navy and the Army provided on 20 October 2015 by my hon. Friend the Minister for Reserves (Julian Brazier) in response to Question 11479 to the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson).
