Armed Forces
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what personnel levels are in the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy, (c) Royal Air Force and (d) reserve forces.
Answered by Luke Pollard
Statistics on the strength of UK service personnel are published on gov.uk at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2025
As at 1 January 2025, the latest date for when data is available, Table 3c shows the Full-Time Trained Strength (FTTS) (Royal Navy & Royal Marines and Royal Air Force) and Full-Time Trade Trained Strength (FTTTS) (Army).
Table 6a shows the Trained Futures Reserves 2020 Strength.
Table 3c
Full-Time Trained Strength (FTTS) | 127,036 |
Royal Navy/Royal Marines (FTTS) | 28,085 |
Army (FTTTS) | 71,151 |
Royal Air Force (FTTS) | 27,800 |
Table 6a
Tri Service Future Reserve FR20 | 29,265 |
Maritime Reserve | 2,610 |
Army Reserve | 23,897 |
Royal Air Force Reserve | 2,758 |
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