Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 34507

Armed Forces: Recruitment

Tabled: 27 February 2025
Answered: 7 March 2025

Question

Jonathan Davies

LabourMid Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps her Department has taken to tackle the shortfall in armed forces recruitment over the last five years; and whether these measures have been tailored to each branch of the military.

Answer

Luke Pollard
The new Government inherited a crisis in recruitment and has made it a priority to address this with a series of work streams designed to improve Armed Forces recruitment, modernising and refining our policies and processes to attract the best possible ta...

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