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Army

Answer

Regardless of whether recruits are from the Commonwealth or United Kingdom, the recruitment process for the Regular Army is administered in the UK and therefore the following tables show the intake to the untrained strength of the Regular Army by Nationality:

Regular Army untrained intake for financial year 2004–05
Nationality on Intake	Total	Officers	Soldiers
Total	11,300	680	10,620
Commonwealth	960	30	930
Other	10,340	650	9,700
Commonwealth (Percentage)	9.3	4.2	9.6

Regular Army untrained Intake for the period 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005
Nationality on Intake	Total	Officers	Soldiers
Total	11,680	720	10,960
Commonwealth	700	20	690
Other	10,970	700	10,270
Commonwealth (Percentage)	6.0	2.1	6.3
Notes: 1. UK Regular Army includes Nursing services and excludes Full Time Reserve Service personnel, Gurkhas, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised Reservists. 2. Officer figures include intake from the ranks and re-entrants. 3. The figures are based on the nationality of personnel who joined the untrained strength of the Regular Army. 4. Other includes British (or first nationality is British), Eire and UK Dependency nationalities. 5. Percentages have been calculated as the number of personnel who joined the Army with the nationality recorded as Commonwealth, out of the total number of intakes during each period. 6. The data have been rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in ‘5' have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

443 c7W;443 c7W; 51479

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Army Commonwealth Recruitment Staff Migrant workers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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