Question follow-through · 6045

Ministry of Defence Police: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is making to improve retention rates in the Ministry of Defence Police.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is making to improve retention rates in the Ministry of Defence Police.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Department has approved a new package of regional and function allowances that significantly improve the attractiveness of the overall pay offer for joining the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) and aligns to those of its counterparts in Home Office Fo...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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