HC Deb 22 June 1966 vol 730 c67W
61. Sir G. Nabarro

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he is aware that recruitment literature for boys training in the Army such as Come to Hong Kong with The Queen's Own Buffs and The Royal Kent Regiment, Trades and Employments taught in the Regular Army and other sundry recruitment promotional pamphlets and booklets exhorting the resident to join the Army, have been pushed through a letterbox in Herne Bay, Kent, where the resident is 60 years of age, and has no person of military age

(1) (2) (3) (4)
Total of Army Land held in UK Worldwide strength of British Army (British male)* Acreage per man in relation to (2) UK strength of British Army (male)*
1951 609,000 426,824 1.43 236,408
1966 as at 31st March 423,000 187,074 2.26 90,957
(5) (6) (7) (8)
Acreage per man in relation to (4) Total worldwide strength of British Army (Includes active UK Reserve Forces)* Acreage per man in relation to (6) UK strength of British Army (Includes active UK Reserve Forces)*
1951 2.58 554,000 1.10 363,584
1966 as at 31st March 4.65 299,214 1.41 203,097
(9) (10) (11)
Acreage per man in relation to (8) Strength of Regular Field Force units in UK Acreage per man in relation to (10)
1951 … … … 1.67 37,529 16.2
1966 as at 31st March … … … 2.08 31,548 13.4
* Strengths include boy soldiers.

NOTE: Of the total of 423,000 acres held by the Army at 1st March, 1966, 328,805 acres are training land; 249,000 acres of this are let to farmers for agricultural purposes.