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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many service men and women there were in (a) the Royal Air Force, (b) the army, and (c) the Royal Navy, in 1997; and how many are in each service currently. [HL6298]
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign service personnel there were in (a) the Royal Air Force, (b) the army, and (c) the Royal Navy, in 1997; and how many there are in each service currently. [HL6299]
The following table gives strength of the trained UK regular forces by service and nationality as at 1 April 1997 and 2009.
Number 01 Apr 97 01 Apr 09 All Services 193 630 168 240P UK .. 159 380P Non-UK .. 7 670P Unknown .. 1 190P Naval Service 41 680 34 400P UK .. 33 580P Non-UK .. 660P Unknown .. 160P Army 97 760 94 590P UK 97 190 86 770P Non-UK 570 6 910P Unknown - 900P Royal Air Force 54 200 39 250P UK .. 39 030P Non-UK .. 100P Unknown .. 120P
Source: DASA (Quad-Service)
Nationality data for the Naval Service and RAF are only available from 1 April 2007 after the introduction of the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) System.
Trained UK Regular Forces excludes Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve personnel, and mobilised reservists.
- denotes zero or rounded to zero
.. denotes not available
p denotes provisional
Due to ongoing validation of data from the Joint Personnel Administration System, Army strength statistics from 1 April 2007, and Naval Service and RAF strength statistics from 1 Apri12008 are provisional and subject to review.
Figures have been rounded to 10. When rounding to the nearest 10, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.
Where rounding has been used, totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so totals may not equal the sums of their rounded parts.