Hansard

Reserves

Volume 455: debated on Wednesday 24 January 2007

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Mr. Harper

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) required and (b) actual strength of the (i) Territorial Army, (ii) Royal Naval Reserve, (iii) Royal Marines Reserve and (iv) Royal Auxiliary Air Force.[113050]

Derek Twigg

The available requirement and strength data are given as follows.

1997120062

Requirement

Strength3

Requirement

Strength3

Territorial Army4

59,000

56,200

42,000

35,940

Royal Naval Reserve5

n/a

2,670

2,900

2,180

Royal Marines Reserve5

n/a

890

990

710

Royal Auxiliary Air Force6

2,250

1,740

2,220

71,460

n/a = not available

1 Royal Auxiliary Air Force data are at 1 January 1999. All others at 1 April 1997.

2 Territorial Army (TA) data are at 1 November 2006. Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) data and Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) data are at 1 October 2006. Royal Auxiliary Air Force Requirement data are at 1 April 2006. Royal Auxiliary Air Force Strength data are at 1 October 2006.

3 Strength figures are for both trained and untrained personnel.

4 The 1997 figures exclude Mobilised TA personnel as the reserve type cannot be easily identified. There were a total of 990 Mobilised Personnel (Volunteer and Regular Reserve) at 1 April 1997. The 2006 figures include 1,060 Mobilised TA Personnel. All TA figures include Officer Training Corps (OTC) and exclude Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS) and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS). At 1 November 2006 there were 4,910 capbadged OTC personnel.

5 RNR and RMR strength figures exclude FTRS.

6 The Royal Auxiliary Air Force Requirement includes FTRS Home Commitment (HC) and Limited Commitment (LC); the Strength includes FTRS (HC), (LC) and Full Commitment (FC) (for which there is no separate requirement).

7 Provisional. Due to the introduction of a new personnel administration system for RAF, all RAF data from 1 May 20O6 are provisional and subject to review.