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Armed Forces: Termination of Employment

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel leaving the armed forces in each year since 2001 had completed (a) under five years service, (b) between five and 22 years service and (c) over 22 years service. (230160)

The number of service personnel leaving the trained UK regular forces1 in each financial year since 2001-02 is provided in the table:

1 Outflow from the UK Regular Forces includes recalled reservists on release and outflow to the Home Service Battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment. The Royal Irish Regiment disbanded on 31 March 2008.

Trained outflow by length of service

All services

Fewer than five years

Five to 22 years

Over 22 years

2001-02

17,930

5,470

7,690

4,770

2002-03

16,850

5,380

6,560

4,920

2003-04

16,460

5,540

6,510

4,420

2004-05

17,600

5,970

7,060

4,580

2005-06

18,140

5,440

7,310

5,400

2006-071

218,870

25,450

27,900

25,230

2007-08

218,010

24,660

29,250

24,100

1 Army outflow data split by length of service is unavailable for 1 March 2007 to 31 March 2007. Therefore, Army outflow figures broken down by length of service for FY 2006-07 comprises data from 1 March 2006 to 28 February 2007. The total trained outflow for UK Regular Forces for financial year 2006-07 was 18,870. The sum of the fewer than five years length of service, five to 22 years length of service and over 22 years service quoted in this table is 18,580.

2 Denotes provisional. Due to ongoing validation of data from the Joint Personnel Administration System, all service flow statistics for financial year 2006-07 and 2007-08 are provisional and subject to review.

Source:

DASA Quad Service