Dear British Army,

I hope this request finds you well. According to figures released by the Ministry of Defence this year, the British Army has just above 75,000 regular servicemen and women. I would like to request the following more specific information:

1. How many fighting-fit regular servicemen and women are there in the Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery regiments of the British Army? i.e. How many Officers, NCOs, and men are employed in combat roles in the infantry, cavalry, and artillery, in a regular capacity? This figure should not include individuals employed as doctors, chaplains, in logistics, or as engineers etc. If you could do a breakdown of numbers for each of the three roles, I would be grateful.
2. How many regular servicemen and women are employed in supporting combat roles e.g. doctors, chaplains, logistics, engineers, police etc.?
3. How many regular servicemen and women are employed in non-combat roles e.g. musicians, lawyers, administrators?
4. If you could possibly also provide the relative percentages of regular army employed in the above three categories, I would be very grateful.

Yours sincerely,

Charlie Mackintosh