Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 64120
Army: Recruitment
Tabled: 1 July 2025
Answered: 7 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Dr Simon Opher
Labour — Stroud
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to review the criteria for which applications to join the British Army are rejected on medical grounds.
Answer
Luke PollardThis Government inherited a recruitment crisis, with targets being missed every year for the past 14 years, and is taking decisive action to get recruitment back on track. This has included the largest pay rise to personnel in decades and scrapping 100 ou...
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