Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 33164

Reserve Forces: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

Tabled: 24 February 2025
Answered: 19 March 2025

Question

Alison Taylor

LabourPaisley and Renfrewshire North

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention within the army reserve.

Answer

Luke Pollard
This 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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