Tom Elliott – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Elliott on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Army Reserve in made up by Northern Irish soldiers.

Mr Julian Brazier

The information is not held in the format requested as an individual’s nationality is recorded as British rather than Northern Irish.

There are around 1,870 Army Reserve personnel stationed in Northern Ireland, and this makes up 6.7% of the 28,050 total trained and untrained personnel in the Army Reserve population.