Biography information for Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Gregory Campbell on Defence.

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Anna Soubry

The Ministry of Defence-sponsored cadet forces offer challenging and enjoyable activities for young people, and prepare them to play an active part in the community while developing valuable life skills.

Information held centrally by the Ministry of Defence on the numbers of sea and army cadets in Northern Ireland is provided in the following tables. For sea cadets, reliable data is available from January 2005. For army cadets, estimated information on the Army Cadet Force is available from March 2012 although comparable data about the Army Combined Cadet Force is not available in the format requested. Information prior to these dates could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

	Sea Cadets	Royal Marine (RM) Cadets	Adult Volunteers (Sea and RM)
January 2005	225	13	146
January 2014	235	22	157
Change +/-	+10	+9	+11

	Army Cadet Force	Army Combined Cadet Force	Adult Volunteers
March 2012	1,925 (estimated)	Not held	350 (estimated)
January 2014	1,422	598	397
Change +/-	-503	Not known	+47

Since 2012 the Army has worked to improve the accuracy of their record keeping with a concerted effort to identify those cadets not actively participating and to either encourage them back into cadet activities or to remove them from the management information system. This has accounted for a significant drop in Army Cadet Force figures over the past few years. However, we are actively recruiting Army cadets in Northern Ireland and numbers are beginning to increase.