Notes:

All figures are averaged over each year. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately so may not appear to be sums of their parts.

It should be noted that the figures published in this report do not reflect the changes announced in the Command Paper MoD (2004a) Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities (Cm6269). Norwich: TSO.

1. Service personnel totals exclude Volunteer Reserves and Auxiliaries, but include officer cadets and locally engaged personnel such as Gurkhas.
2. Civilian personnel totals exclude casuals, staff on loan and those working for the United States Air Force, but include civilian personnel employed by the MoD Trading Funds.
3. Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) became a Trading Fund on 1 April 2002.
4. Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA) became a Trading Fund on 1 April 2001.
5. From 1 April 1995, DERA assumed responsibility for the Defence Research Agency (DRA), the Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation (DTEO), the Centre for Defence Analysis (CDA) and the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment (CBDE). From 1 July 2001 the figures shown reflect the personnel numbers of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and do not include the staff who transferred to the privatised QinetiQ (national defence laboratory).

Source: MoD 2004b, table 5