Question follow-through · 27121

Defence: Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) educational institutions to help ensure the safety of defence industry representatives at university recruitment events.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 29 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 5 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) educational institutions to help ensure the safety of defence industry representatives at university recruitment events.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
This Government fully supports defence companies and their personnel attending events in the higher education sector to demonstrate the benefits and opportunities of careers in the defence sector. They should be able to do so confident they will be safe a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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