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1141546

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) men, and (2) women, are in the British army.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
	uin	HL17414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2019, there were 74,940 male and 7,510 female personnel in the Regular Army and Gurkha population, and 25,400 male and 4,060 female personnel in the Army Reserve.</p><p> </p><p>Notes/Caveats:</p><p> </p><p>The Figures are for trained and untrained Regular and Gurkha personnel excluding Full Time Reserve Service.</p><p> </p><p>Reserve figures are taken from the FR20 population consisting of Group A Army Reserves, some Sponsored Reserves and those personnel serving on FTRS contracts who were previously Army Reservists.</p><p> </p><p>Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 02/08/2019 12:15:20 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

1142453

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) men, and (2) women, are serving full-time in the British army.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
	uin	HL17527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2019, there were 75,230 male and 7,540 female personnel in the full-time trade-trained strength and their untrained counterparts. This population does not include full-time Reserves Service (Home Commitment), Military Provost Guard Service and non-regular permanent staff, of which there are an additional 4,960 male and 260 female personnel.</p><p> </p><p>Full-time trade-trained strength includes Regulars, Gurkhas, and full-time Reserves Service (Full Commitment and Limited Commitment). Mobilised Reserves have not been included in the data, as these are only full-time whilst mobilised. Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 02/08/2019 12:15:31 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

1379690

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many uniformed British Army personnel are based in the UK, broken down by home nation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links
	uin	HL4125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>As at 1 July 2021, there are 111,270 British Army Regular, Gurkha and Reserve Personnel based in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1. Regulars based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Strength </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 78,420 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>71,380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>1,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>3,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>1,680</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 2. Gurkhas based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Strength </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,300 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>3,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table 3. FR20 Reserves based in the UK, by Country as at 1 July 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Strength </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 29,550 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>21,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>1,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>4,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>1,880</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ol><li>Home Nation is based on Country as recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system. The figures are based on Service personnel's stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work isn't necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.</li><li>UK Regulars figures are comprised of Trained and Untrained Regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves, but includes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.</li><li>Gurkha figures include the Trained and Untrained Gurkha population only. This excludes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.</li><li>Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) figures include the Trained and Untrained FR20 Reserve population only. This consists of Group A Army Reserves, some Sponsored Reserves and those personnel serving on FTRS contracts who were previously Army Reservists.</li><li>“-” denotes zero or rounded to zero.</li><li>Figures have been rounded to 10 to limit disclosure to ensure confidentiality; numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not appear to be the sum of their parts.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 30/11/2021 14:36:58 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	4927 label Biography information for Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links

1461078

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their plan to reduce the army troop size to 72,500 by the year 2025 still remains, as set out in their Defence in a Competitive Age command paper, published on 22 March 2021 and updated on 30 July 2021.
	tabling member printed	Lord Coaker
	uin	HL43
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to reverse the decision to reduce the number of regular Army personnel to 73,000. The Integrated Review and Defence Command Paper made clear that we must focus on Defence capability rather than troop numbers in response to changing threats and priorities. The British Army will be more integrated and active, with a whole force of over 100,000 regulars and reservists, to address current and future threats.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to monitor the situation globally, including in Ukraine, and, in line with planning and delivery mechanisms developed following the Integrated Review, we will continue to review our capabilities and readiness levels accordingly.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie grouped question UIN HL44 question first answered 24/05/2022 16:04:14 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1461079

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to maintaining, rather than reducing, army size targets since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
	tabling member printed	Lord Coaker
	uin	HL44
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to reverse the decision to reduce the number of regular Army personnel to 73,000. The Integrated Review and Defence Command Paper made clear that we must focus on Defence capability rather than troop numbers in response to changing threats and priorities. The British Army will be more integrated and active, with a whole force of over 100,000 regulars and reservists, to address current and future threats.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to monitor the situation globally, including in Ukraine, and, in line with planning and delivery mechanisms developed following the Integrated Review, we will continue to review our capabilities and readiness levels accordingly.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie grouped question UIN HL43 question first answered 24/05/2022 16:04:14 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1470913

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reconsider their decision, announced in March 2021, to reduce the size of the army by 10,000 troops by 2025.
	tabling member printed	Lord Selkirk of Douglas
	uin	HL1012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the reply I gave on 24 May 2022 to the noble Lord, the Lord Coaker, in response to Questions HL43 and HL44.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 29/06/2022 15:56:27 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie attachment 1 file name Hansards REF- Lords.docx title HL43 - Army
	tabling member	802 label Biography information for Lord Selkirk of Douglas

577932

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the government of the USA has made representations to them about the manpower reductions in the British army.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL1679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>Whilst changes in the British Army have been discussed during regular meetings between UK and US officials, no formal representations of this nature have been made by the US Government.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 14/09/2016 16:39:26 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

671117

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the British army last executed a Divisional Movement Order.
	tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
	uin	HL4520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The last time the British Army deployed a Division was for TELIC 1, for operations in Iraq in 2003.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 18/01/2017 16:15:51 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

678228

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to their consultation on changes to the definition of trained strength for the army, why this change has been proposed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL4957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the Written Ministerial Statement made by the Secretary of State for Defence (Michael Fallon) on 30 June 2016 (HLWS50).</p><p> </p><p>The public consultation sought views on the inclusion of the revised Army Trained Strength figures within the Monthly Service Personnel Statistics publication. No external responses were received. The change was implemented from 1 October 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 03/02/2017 14:44:41 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 30 June 2016 HLWS50.docx title Strategic Defence and Security Review
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

856310

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a log of the daily activities of HQ 39 Infantry Brigade is still in existence; and if so, under whose control it is kept.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL6100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Army formation records, including operational logs, are subject to the Public Record Acts 1958 and 1967. These require that records aged 30 years (reducing to 20 years following the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010) are to be reviewed for selection for permanent preservation at The National Archives. Where the record is required for ongoing Departmental business, or the record contains information that is still sensitive, authority will be sought for the record's retention by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Where a record is not selected for permanent preservation by The National Archives or retention within the Department, it is destroyed.</p><p>39 Infantry Brigade originally formed during World War 1, reforming in the 1950's and becoming involved in Northern Ireland in 1969 until its disbandment in 2007. To examine logs for the entirety of the Brigade's formation would require detailed searches through MOD's Main and Sensitive Archives and through The National Archive.</p><p>We are unable to determine if any Daily Logs exist without incurring disproportionate cost. If any daily activity logs do exist, they will be under the control of the MOD or The National Archive in line with the review process described above.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 19/03/2018 16:19:34 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey