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Army: Officers

Answer

The below table shows the Army’s Regular Trade Trained Commission Conversions from Short Service Commissions to Intermediate Regular Commissions (IRC) over the last ten financial years (FY).

Commission to IRC Contract Type	FY 2013-14	FY 2014-15	FY 2015-16 3	FY 2016-17	FY 2017-18	FY 2018-19	FY 2019-20	FY 2020-21	FY 2021-22	FY 2022-23
IRC Total	350	230	910	520	530	480	450	460	390	390
Army IRC (Direct Entry)	340	220	870	510	510	450	440	440	360	380
Army IRC (Late Entry)	10	10	30	10	20	20	20	20	20	20

Table notes:

1. The figures are for the Trade Trained Regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves, but includes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.

2. Figures are for those who converted from the SSC to IRC for both Direct Entry and Late Entry officers.

3. During financial year 2015/16 the New Employment Model (NEM) engagement was introduced. This resulted in a number of people moving between commission types. The Joint Personnel Administrative System (JPA) was updated to identify NEM engagements which reduced our ability to identify conversion of commissions. The step change from 2014-15 to 2015-16 was an Army workforce plan which sought to increase the commission conversion rates of officers.

4. Figures exclude promotions from Other Ranks to Officer i.e. Late Entry commissions.

5. Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

6. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not appear to be the sum of their parts.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

13486

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Army Career development Officers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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