§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish figures to show the level of recruitment to the Armed Forces from natives of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man during the past five years; and how this compares with recruitment per capita in the British Islands as a whole.
§ Mr. WigginThe numbers of Service men and Service women recruited from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are as follows. Accurate figures for 1976–77 are not available. These figures exclude officers who are recruited centrally.
Channel Islands Isle of Man 1977–78 62 13 1978–79 91 27 1979–80 86 36 1980–81 92 36 The recruitment per capita ratio in 1980–81 was 1:1, 445 for the Channel Islands and 1:1, 722 for the Isles of man. For the United Kingdom as a whole the ratio was 1:1, 185.