Question follow-through · 25983
Armed Forces: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of officer cadets entering Sandhurst since 2015 attended a (a) state and (b) private school.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of officer cadets entering Sandhurst since 2015 attended a (a) state and (b) private school.
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
The table below shows the proportion of officer cadets entering Sandhurst in the last 10 years who attended independent and state schools. This data has been provided from a Single Service source rather than official statistics produced by Defence Statist...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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