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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the most recent figure is for the average length of service in the British Army of soldiers who are (a) United Kingdom citizens, (b) Commonwealth citizens and (c) foreign citizens, broken down by regiment. [183250] Mr. Caplin: [holding answer 12 July 2004]: The following table gives the Mean Length of Reckonable service for all trained soldiers in all Arms/Services as at 1 June 2004. Note that the data presented represents the situation as at 1 June 2004 and the relatively low Length of Service of Commonwealth citizens reflects the fact that many of them are recently joined. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. UK Commonwealth (excluding UK) Eire H CAV 8 years 4 months 2 years 3 months 1-- RAC 8 years 4 months 3 years 4 months 10 years 4 months RA 8 years 7 months 2 years 6 months 7 years 4 months RE 9 years 3 years 1 month 9 years 5 months R Signals 8 years 4 months 3 years 7 months 7 years 8 months Footguards 7 years 8 months 2 years 9 months 2-- Scots DIV 8 years 1 month 3 years 6 months 2-- Queens DIV 7 years 10 months 2 years 7 months 14 years 6 months Kings DIV 1 years 6 months 2 years 8 months 2-- POW DIV 7 years 7 months 2 years 10 months 2-- Light DIV 7 years 6 months 2 years 1 month 2-- R Irish(GS) 8 years 2 months 3 years 5 months 2-- Para 7 years 8 months 3 years 8 months 10 years 11 months Infantry total 7 years 9 months 2 years 10 months 9 years 11 months AAC 10 years 4 months 2 years 9 months 2-- RLC 9 years 8 months 2 years 2 months 9 years 11 months RAMC 9 years 10 months 2 years 11 months 2-- REME 10 years 8 months 3 years 7 months 10 years 11 months AG Corps(PRO) 9 years 9 months 6 years 2 months 2-- AG Corps(SPS) 11 years 11 months 1 year 10 months 11 years 5 months AG Corps(MPS) 17 years 8 months 1-- 1-- RAVC 8 years 1 month 2-- 1-- SASC 16 years 10 months 1-- 1-- RADC 10 years 4 months 3 years 1 month 1-- INT Corps 10 years 6 months 1-- 1-- APTC 15 years 11 months 2-- 1-- QARANC 8 years 3 months 3 years 5 months 1-- CA Mus 12 years 4 months 3 years 10 months 2-- LS List 27 years 5 months 2-- 1-- Total 9 years 3 months 2 years 7 months 9 years 10 months _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Represents zero occurrences in a particular category. 2 Represents less than five occurrences in a particular category. Length of Service averages have only been calculated for categories containing five or more individuals. There is no Arm/Service with five or more foreign citizens. The average Length of Service of all foreign citizens is seven years one month. The only UK dependency with five or more individuals are St. Helenians whose average Length of Service is two years 10 months. The average Length of Service of all UK dependencies is four years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

183250; 423 c1242-3W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Army Commonwealth Foreign nationals Termination of employment

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