Royal Military Academy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the capacity for (a) regular and (b) Territorial Army commissions at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was in each year since 2001; and how many places were unfilled in each year. (234317)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Financial year	Statement of trained requirement	Output from training
2001-02
Regular	770	714
TA	450	257
2002-03
Regular	780	720
TA	440	261

2003-04
Regular	760	713
TA	440	287

2004-05
Regular	740	746
TA	390	195

2005-06
Regular	824	752
TA	490	115

2006-07
Regular	841	707
TA	360	172

2007-08
Regular	832	712
TA	450	217

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) is resourced to train the number of officers needed to meet the Army’s manpower liability each year—this figure is known as the statement of training requirement (SOTR) and is set by the Director of Manning (Army). The total bed space capacity at RMAS for regular and TA officer cadets is 1,100.

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 11 November 2008