Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to publish his plan for the future of the Territorial Army. [91819]

Nick Harvey MP; Minister for the Armed Forces [holding answer 26 January 2012]: As part of Defence transformation it is envisaged that there will be an integrated Army of around 120,000 by 2020, comprising a trained strength of 82,000 regular and at least 30,000 reserves, with a training margin of 8,000 reserves. Across Defence, the reserves will benefit from £1.5 billion investment over 10 years to reinvigorate their contribution to all three services.

These changes will require the Army to review and rebalance its structure, both in terms of its regular and reserve forces, in order to identify when and how these changes will take place. This detailed work is now under way as part of Army 2020 which I expect to receive for consideration in spring 2012.