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Armed Forces: Recruitment

Commons · Question 48848 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 6 May 2025

Question

Asked by Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of serving personnel in the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF were recruited from countries outside the UK in each year since 2015; and from which countries.

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 6 May 2025

The attached tables provide the intake into the Regular Armed Forces by Service and the Brigade of Gurkhas by nationality, and as percentage of overall intake in each year between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2024. Commonwealth citizens have been groupe...