Table 1 outlines the number of Late Entry (LE) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) officers for 2017.

Table 1: No. of REME LE Officers for 2017
Rank	Captain	Major	Lieutenant Colonel	Total
Number	110	110	10	230

Table 2 outlines the percentage of serving LE REME officers eligible for conversion from an IRC (LE) commission to a Reg C (LE) commission.

Table 2: No. of LE REME officers eligible for commission conversion
Year	2014	2015	2016	2017
Eligible	80	70	70	60
Selected	20	20	20	20
% Selected	20%	22%	24%	36%

Notes:

1. Figures are only available to show the numbers eligible for conversion, the numbers of those serving at the time is not recorded!

Table 3 outlines the number of officers promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Table 3: No. of officers promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
Year	2014	2015	2016	2017
Serving Reg C (LE) Majors	60	70	70	60
Eligible	10	20	20	10
Selected	10	¬	10	10
% Selected	10%	4%	15%	13%

Notes:

• Under National Statistics rounding conventions all figures are rounded to the nearest 10, number ending in 5 have been rounded up to the nearest multiple of 10 to avoid systematic bias.
• Figures below 5 are denoted by ¬.
• Zero is denoted by 0.
• Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.

Reference

FOI 2017/11370 dated 05 December 2017.