Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 78978

Reserve Forces

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 18 October 2025

Question

Mr Calvin Bailey

LabourLeyton and Wanstead

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to standardise the criteria for reservist call-out liability across the Armed Forces services.

Answer

Louise Sandher-Jones
Under the forthcoming Armed Forces Bill, we will standardise some of the criteria governing this liability, for those personnel who will form the Strategic Reserve (personnel who leave Service and retain a liability to be called back into permanent Servic...

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