Defence written question – answered at on 22 July 2008.
Liam Fox
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the trained (a) requirement and (b) strength of the (i) Territorial Army, (ii) Royal Naval Reserve, (iii) Royal Marine Reserve and (iv) Royal Auxiliary Air Force was in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest date for which figures are available.
Bob Ainsworth
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
Figures for the requirement are not available from 1997. The figures for 1997 and 2008 are therefore not completely comparable.
| 1997( 1) | May 2008 | |||
| Requirement | Total strength | Requirement | Trained strength | |
| Royal Naval Reserve | (3)n/a | (4)3,560 | 1,784 | 1,640 |
| Royal Marines Reserve | (3)— | (4)— | 582 | 536 |
| Territorial Army | n/a | (2)51,690 | 30,274 | 19,940 |
| Royal Auxiliary Air Force | n/a | 1,360 | 2,000 | 778 |
| (1) Figures taken from DAS A Publication TSP07 "UK Reserve and Cadets Strength at 1 April 2007". This includes trained and non-trained personnel. (2) For comparison with other Services, this number does not include non-regular permanent staff. | ||||
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