HC Deb 08 June 1999 vol 332 c210W
Mr. Blunt

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what were the(a) actual manning and (b) establishment levels of the (i) Royal Navy (excluding the Royal Marines),(ii) Army,(iii) Royal Air Force and (iv)Royal Marines as at 31 March. [85910]

Mr. Doug Henderson

Personnel statistics are produced for the beginning of each month. As at 1 April 1999, the trained and untrained strengths and establishment (trained requirement) levels for each of the Services were as follows:

Service Trained strength (a) Untrained strength (b) Total strength (c)=(a)+(b) Trained requirement (d)
RN 33,204 3,743 36,947 34,556
Army1 96,300 13,422 109,772 2102,389
RAF 51,761 3,452 55,213 53,024
RM 5,867 887 6,754 6,387
1 The Army figures are for UK Regulars; they do not include Gurkhas or Royal Irish Regiment (Home Service). If Gurkhas were included, the Army Strength would be 99,674, and Requirement would be 105,271.
2 To implement the Post-SDR force structure, the Army's Requirement for UK Regulars will increase to 105,335 by 1 April 2005.