NAVY
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the current manpower strength is of all naval personnel who are not Royal Marines. [188939]
Mr Francois, Minister of State for the Armed Forces: The strength of all naval manpower, not including Royal Marines, as at 1 January 2014 (the latest date for which figures are available) was:
| Manpower strength | |
| Royal Navy Service Personnel(1) | (2)29,620 |
| UK Regular Forces(3) | 25,560 |
| Of which: | |
| Trained | 23,500 |
| Untrained | 2,050 |
| Volunteer Reserve(4) | (2)1,960 |
| Of which: | |
| Trained | (2)1,410 |
| Untrained | (2)550 |
| Active Regular Reserve(5) | (2)320 |
| Sponsored Reserve | 1,780 |
| Of which: | |
| Royal Fleet Auxiliary(6) | 1,550 |
| 1 Royal Naval Service Personnel in this table comprises the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), Active Royal Fleet Reserve and the Royal Naval Reserve Sponsored Reserve. University Royal Naval Units, Royal Marines and Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) are excluded. 2 All figures for the Volunteer Reserve are provisional while Defence Statistics carries out further data validation exercises. 3 UK Regulars are full time Royal Navy personnel, including Nursing Services, but excluding Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel, and mobilised Reservists. Unless otherwise stated, includes trained and untrained personnel. 4 The Volunteer Reserve figures comprise the RNR but exclude the RMR. It includes mobilised RNR, High Readiness Reserve personnel and RNR personnel serving on FTRS or Additional Duties Commitments (ADC) contracts. 5 The Naval Service Regular Reserve is known as the Royal Fleet Reserve and usually comprises ex-Regular Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel who retain a liability to be called up for military service in times of need. The figures in this table exclude ex-Regular Royal Marines. The "active" component identified here comprises ex-Regular personnel who have applied to return to military service on FTRS or ADC contracts. 6 Although all of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are employed as civilians, approximately 80% of them are also on sponsored reserve contracts and are shown here as a subset of the sponsored reserve. The Defence Statistics Quarterly Civilian Personnel Report publishes all of the RFA personnel, including those on sponsored reserve contracts, and will provide a breakdown by sponsored reserve status later in the year. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in '5' have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Source: Defence Statistics (Tri-Service) | |