Territorial Army

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Territorial Army members there are in (a) Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) the UK. (295484)

The number of Territorial Army (TA) personnel in Lancashire, the North West and the UK as a whole are shown in the following table.

	Number of TA personnel
Lancashire	410
North West	1,710
UK	29,400

These figures include those TA personnel mobilised in support of operations.

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009