Andrew Murrison corrected a written answer on Armed Forces: Recruitment
John Healey (Labour, Wentworth and Dearne) asked written question 26345 on 15 May 2024. Dr Andrew Murrison answered on 24 May 2024 for the Ministry of Defence, and Dr Andrew Murrison corrected the answer on 24 May 2024. The corrected text adds the figures 12118, 125, 152, 17290,, 220, 227, which the original did not give. Altogether 212 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 July 2023 to Question 194671, what his Department's recruitment targets for the armed forces are for 2024-25.
Original and corrected answer
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| Recruitment targets for Regular Serving personnel in 2024-25 currently are summarised below: Royal Navy Officers 450 Sailors 2,864 Army Officers 677 Soldiers 9,800 Royal Air Force Officers 462 Aviators 2,615 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recruitment targets for Regular Serving personnel in 2024-25 currently are summarised below: Royal Navy Officers 450 Sailors 2,864 Army Officers 677 Soldiers 9,800 Royal Air Force Officers 462 Aviators 2,615 In my answers to Questions 7264, 8358, 12118 and 17290, I incorrectly stated that there were no recruitment targets for officers. I have therefore provided below the historic Army recruitment targets for officers, as contained within the Recruiting Partnering Project (RPP) Demand Plan. The Plan reflects the number of personnel that Capita are directed to recruit annually. The figures include Direct Entrants and Professionally Qualified Officers. The RPP started in 2012. Please note that data pre-dating 2014 could not be accessed in the time available. Year | OF Reg | OF Res 14-15 | 709 | 362 15-16 | 742 | 368 16-17 | 747 | 318 17-18 | 713 | 372 18-19 | 696 | 241 19-20 | 713 | 315 20-21 | 700 | 230 21-22 | 688 | 125 22-23 | 610 | 220 23-24 | 644 | 220 In relation to the question asking for the target for recruitment of officers into the British Army for each of the first three quarters in the 2023-24 financial year; please note that OF in-year targets are based on the intakes to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), of which there are three a year. The following reflects the target by intake, rather than quarter. RY | Target RY23 1 | 152 RY23 2 | 227 RY23 3 | 152 Data is sourced from Army Recruiting and Initial Training Command and reflect single Service estimates. |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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