Stephen Doughty – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Doughty on 2016-02-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits to the (a) Reserve and (b) armed forces in each local authority area of their origin in Wales and in each branch of service began their basic training in each of the last 12 months
Mr Julian Brazier
Information on the local authority of origin for recruits to the Regular and Reserve forces is not available.
The date at which personnel started their basic training is also not held.
The Ministry of Defence publishes UK Regular strengths by stationed location in our Quarterly Location Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index
Information on untrained intake into the Volunteer Reserve by stationed location in Wales is provided in the attached table.