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<p>The hon. Member's question has been answered on the basis of numbers of Regular
Service Personnel who have a Commonwealth nationality recorded on the Joint Personnel
Administration (JPA) system.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1. The strength of UK trade trained
and untrained Regulars<sup>1</sup> with a Commonwealth<sup>2</sup> Nationality<sup>3,4
</sup>as at 1 April 2023.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Service</p></td><td><p>Count</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal
Navy/Royal Marines</p></td><td><p>890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>4,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal
Air Force</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>5,230</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Notes/Caveats:</p><p> </p><p>1.UK Regulars comprise Full time Service personnel,
including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel,
Gurkhas, mobilised Reservists, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged
Personnel (LEP), Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), High Readiness Reserve (HRR)
and Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) personnel.</p><p>2.The Commonwealth grouping
includes all personnel with a nationality, as recorded on the JPA system at the time
of publication, that is reported in the British Nationality Act 1981, SCHEDULE 3 (Countries
Whose Citizens are Commonwealth Citizens), further information of which is available
at <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/schedule/3" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61/schedule/3</a>
Figures relating to personnel with a nationality, as recorded on JPA, of Gambian or
Zimbabwean are currently still included in the Commonwealth grouping.</p><p>3.As nationality
is a non-mandatory field, nationality is as currently recorded and not necessarily
the same as at birth or when recruited. Therefore, Commonwealth personnel who have
changed nationality (for example naturalised to a British Citizen) may or may not
have updated their JPA record.</p><p>4. The question has requested Commonwealth personnel
only. This will differ from the Biannual Diversity Statistics, which provides a combined
nationality breakdown of Commonwealth and Irish.</p><p> </p><p>These figures may not
capture the full cohort of Commonwealth personnel who joined the UK Regular Forces,
as a number of personnel may have changed from a Commonwealth nationality to a British
nationality.</p><p> </p><p>Figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest
10, though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20
to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards.</p>
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