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Parachute Regiment

Answer

The internal transfer bounty for the Parachute Regiment has been in place since 15 November 2023 and will be in place until 31 March 2025 or until the allocated number of bounties have been taken up. Since 15 November, one person has completed training and 12 are in training to pass selection in the new year.

£150,000 has been budgeted in financial year 2023-24 to pay for these bounties.

The below table shows the strength of the Parachute Regiment between 2010-23. I am however withholding the workforce requirement as disclosure would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the British Army.

Year as at 01 April 2023	Total Strength
2010	2,290
2011	2,220
2012	2,250
2013	2,280
2014	2,200
2015	2,220
2016	2,200
2017	2,290
2018	2,200
2019	2,230
2020	2,240
2021	2,260
2022	2,110
2023	2,110

Source: Analysis (Army)

Notes/Caveats:

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

2. Figures include Other Ranks regardless of Training status and Officers who have completed Phase 1 Training. Personnel joining the commissioning course at RMAS are not assigned an Arm/Service until completion of the course and are therefore not included in the above.

3. Figures have been rounded to 10 though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards. For example, a value of ‘25’ would be rounded down to ‘20’ and a value of ‘15’ would be rounded up to ‘20’.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

6394

Session

2023-24

Related items

Army: Recruitment
Monday, 11 December 2023
Written questions
House of Commons

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Vacancies Parachute Regiment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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