questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of years served was for personnel leaving the regular armed forces in each of the last 10 financial years.
answerText: Service personnel statistics on strengths, requirements, intake, applications and outflow, by service is published as part of the Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics (SPS) publication. The latest publication as at 1 April 2026 can be found at the follo...
heading: Armed Forces: Discharges