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Mr. Cash
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the current estimated number of 16 to 24-year-old males in the recruiting areas of (a) the Queen's Regiment, (b) the King's Own Royal Border Regiment, (c) the Royal Anglian Regiment and (d) the Royal Hampshire Regiment.
Mr. Archie Hamilton
Information is not available in the precise form requested, as no regiment recruits exclusively within a particular geographical area. The table shows the total population in the 16 to 24-year-old age group in the following Army districts in 1990:
| Population in the 16 to 24-year-old group | |
| Army district | 11990 |
| South East | 538·5 |
| London | 456·5 |
| North West | 461·3 |
| Eastern | 624·9 |
| 1Population (thousands). | |