| Heading: |
Armed Forces: Recruitment |
| Question ID: |
1798234 |
| UIN: |
48848 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
429 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Derek Twigg
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Derek Twigg
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of serving personnel in the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF were recruited from countries outside the UK in each year since 2015; and from which countries. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4682 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Luke Pollard
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| Answering Member handle: |
LukePollard
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@LukePollard
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| Answer text: |
The attached tables provide the intake into the Regular Armed Forces by Service and the Brigade of Gurkhas by nationality, and as percentage of overall intake in each year between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2024. Commonwealth citizens have been groupe... |
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| Answering body ID: |
11 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Defence |
| Tweeted: |
true |