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Armed Forces: Recruitment

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 43215, tabled on 1 April 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's recruitment targets for the armed forces are for 2025-26.

Answered on

7 April 2025

As the hon. Gentleman will know, the current Government inherited a crisis in recruitment and retention from the last administration. We have made a series of announcements to improve recruitment since July 2024.

The 2025-26 Single Service recruitment targets are detailed below:

Royal Navy – 3,890

Army – 10,200

Royal Air Force – 3,230

These figures are the totals for Regular Service personnel only and are rounded to the nearest 10.

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