Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 50903

Territorial Army: Recruitment

Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 16 May 2025

Question

Anneliese Dodds

Labour (Co-op)Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether experiencing acne (a) in the past and (b) at present is used as a criterion within the online recruitment process for selecting potential future members of the territorial army.

Answer

Luke Pollard
The Government inherited a recruitment crisis from the last Government.The Defence Secretary has undertaken to review the current recruitment policies and has already announced several changes to prior outdated approaches. An update to Joint Service Publi...

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