From Mr Richard Hills

/ Headquarters
Army Recruiting and Training Division
Trenchard Lines
Upavon
Pewsey
Wiltshire SN9 6BE
Telephone: 01980 615010
Facsimile: 01980 615078
D/ARTD/1/3/7/75676 / 19 November 2009

Mr R Hodgson

Via: .

Dear Mr Hodgson,

Thank you for your email of 11 November, requesting information. This department has been asked to respond. Your request has been treated as a request for information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The number of successful applicants who joined the British Army has been broken down by Armed Forces Careers Office (AFCO) and Army Careers Information Office (ACIO) and displayed in the below table. The figures relate to regular soldiers joining the Army within the financial period 2008-09 (1 April 2008 – 31 March 2009) and does not include Officers, those re-joining, the Gurkhas or those joining the TA.

ACIO Aldershot / 116
ACIO Ashington / 41
ACIO Bangor / 80
ACIO Barnsley / 77
ACIO Barnstaple / 54
ACIO Barrow-in-Furness / 55
ACIO Bathgate / 41
ACIO Birkenhead / 106
ACIO Bishop Auckland / 50
ACIO Blackburn / 70
ACIO Blackheath / 97
ACIO Blackpool / 95
ACIO Bolton / 163
ACIO Boston / 71
ACIO Bradford / 144
ACIO Bridgend / 56
ACIO Burnley / 96
ACIO Burton-on-Trent / 99
ACIO Canterbury / 64
ACIO Carmarthen / 33
ACIO Catterick / 47
ACIO Chelmsford / 62
ACIO Chester / 118
ACIO Chesterfield / 77
ACIO Chichester / 36
ACIO Coleraine / 51
ACIO Coventry / 196
ACIO Croydon / 91
ACIO Darlington / 82
ACIO Derby / 106
ACIO Doncaster / 151
ACIO Dover / 58
ACIO Dumbarton / 36
ACIO Dumfries / 48
ACIO Dunfermline / 42
ACIO Durham / 78
ACIO Elgin / 17
ACIO Enniskillen / 35
ACIO Galashiels / 27
ACIO Greenock / 28
ACIO Grimsby / 65
ACIO Halifax / 50
ACIO Hamilton / 79
ACIO Haverfordwest / 42
ACIO Hereford / 94
ACIO Huddersfield / 84
ACIO Ilford / 115
ACIO Ipswich / 113
ACIO Irvine / 63
ACIO Kirkcaldy / 47
ACIO Lancaster / 98
ACIO Luton / 134
ACIO Mansfield / 130
ACIO Merthyr Tydfil / 63
ACIO Milton Keynes / 87
ACIO Newport / 76
ACIO Newport (IOW) / 26
ACIO Northampton / 174
ACIO Oldham / 95
ACIO Oxford / 68
ACIO Paisley / 28
ACIO Perth / 34
ACIO Pontypridd / 59
ACIO Portadown / 55
ACIO Rhyl / 82
ACIO Rochdale / 69
ACIO Salisbury / 96
ACIO Scarborough / 66
ACIO Southampton / 98
ACIO South Shields / 57
ACIO Stirling / 45
ACIO Stockport / 98
ACIO Strand / 266
ACIO Sunderland / 118
ACIO Swindon / 69
ACIO Taunton / 81
ACIO Torquay / 68
ACIO Tunbridge Wells / 27
ACIO Wakefield / 150
ACIO Warrington / 76
ACIO Wembley / 128
ACIO Wigan / 119
ACIO Wolverhampton / 218
ACIO Worcester / 130
ACIO Workington / 51
ACIO York / 96
AFCO Aberdeen / 33
AFCO Belfast / 152
AFCO Birmingham / 421
AFCO Bournemouth / 113
AFCO Brighton / 171
AFCO Bristol / 172
AFCO Cambridge / 97
AFCO Cardiff / 140
AFCO Carlisle / 51
AFCO Chatham / 99
AFCO Dundee / 57
AFCO Edinburgh / 71
AFCO Exeter / 84
AFCO Glasgow / 116
AFCO Gloucester / 84
AFCO Hull / 175
AFCO Inverness / 39
AFCO Leeds / 201
AFCO Leicester / 163
AFCO Lincoln / 101
AFCO Liverpool / 212
AFCO London / 100
AFCO Manchester / 194
AFCO Middlesbrough / 139
AFCO Newcastle / 190
AFCO Norwich / 200
AFCO Nottingham / 192
AFCO Peterborough / 131
AFCO Plymouth / 97
AFCO Portsmouth / 124
AFCO Preston / 130
AFCO Reading / 111
AFCO Redruth / 102
AFCO Sheffield / 113
AFCO Shrewsbury / 117
AFCO Southend-on-Sea / 72
AFCO Stoke-on-Trent / 206
AFCO Swansea / 163
AFCO Wrexham / 136

If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Head of Corporate Information, 6th Floor, MODMainBuilding, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail ). Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end.

If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate your case until the MOD internal review process has been completed. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's website,

Yours sincerely,

RichardHills