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Army: Manpower

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many individuals over the age of 50 years are serving in the Army, broken down by (a) regiment and (b) rank. (248159)

The following tables show the numbers of Army personnel, aged 50 and over by (a) arm/service and (b) paid rank. Figures are shown by arm/service since this information is not collated at regiment level.

Table 1: Number of trained army personnel aged 50 and over by paid rank as at 1 April 2008

Paid rank

Number

Lieutenant General and above

120

Major General

140

Brigadier

180

Colonel

1270

Lieutenant Colonel

1460

Major

1470

Captain

110

Warrant Officer Class I

140

Warrant Officer Class II

160

Staff Sergeant

120

Sergeant

110

Corporal

110

Lance Corporal

110

Private

1,2

Total

11,500

Table 2: Number of trained army personnel aged 50 and over by arm/service as at 1 April 2008

Arm/service

Number

Staff

1400

Household Cavalry

1,2

Royal Armoured Corps

140

Royal Regiment of Artillery

180

Corps of Royal Engineers

1100

Royal Corps of Signals

190

Infantry

1190

Army Air Corps

160

Royal Army Chaplain's Department

130

The Royal Logistics Corps

1150

Royal Army Medical Corps

140

Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

160

Adjutant General Corps

180

Small Arms School Corps

1,2

Royal Army Dental Corps Dental Officer

1,2

Intelligence Corps

120

Army Physical Training Corps

110

Corps of Army Music

120

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

120

Long Service List

1110

Total

11,500

1 Provisional

2 Zero or rounded to zero

Notes:

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

2. Due to the implementation of the new Joint Personnel Administration System all Army data from 1 April 2007 are provisional and subject to review.

3. All Officers of Paid Rank Colonel and above are included in staff regardless of late arm/service.

4. Figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in ‘5’ have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Due to the rounding methods used, totals may not always equal the sum of the parts.