HC Deb 21 February 1978 vol 944 c551W
22. Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers have applied for release from their Army contracts in each of the last three years.

Mr. Robert C. Brown

This information is not readily available since the Army does not hold central records of the numbers of applications. The numbers of trained soldiers actually leaving the Army in each of the past three years on either premature voluntary release terms or compassionate discharge were as follows:

1975 4971
1976 3656
1977 5109