Army
Defence
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Willie Rennie (Dunfermline & Fife West, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) brigadiers and (b) generals were on the active list in the Army in each year since 1997.
Brian Jenkins (Tamworth, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many generals of each rank there are in the Army.
Bill Rammell (Minister of State (Armed Forces), Ministry of Defence; Harlow, Labour)
The number of Brigadiers and Generals in the Army at
The ranks of Lt General and Major General have also been included in the table for clarity.
| Number | ||||
| Paid rank | ||||
| 1 April | General | Lt General | Major General | Brigadier |
| 1997 | 5 | 10 | 43 | 170 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10 | 41 | 180 |
| 1999 | 6 | 7 | 48 | 180 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8 | 47 | 180 |
| 2001 | 6 | 8 | 42 | 190 |
| 2002 | 6 | 9 | 37 | 180 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10 | 46 | 180 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10 | 42 | 180 |
| 2005 | 7 | 11 | 46 | 180 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9 | 43 | 180 |
| 2007 | (1)6 | (1)12 | (1)42 | (1)180 |
| 2008 | (1)6 | (1)16 | (1)44 | (1)180 |
| 1 April 2009 | (1)5 | (1)17 | (1)43 | (1)190 |
| (1) Provisional. Notes: 1. The figures are for trained Regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, TA and all other Reserves. 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. Figures less than 100 have been left unrounded so as not to obscure the data. 4. These figures are published regularly in TSP 9 which is available at: www.dasa.mod.uk | ||||
This information is held in the House of Commons Library.