Question follow-through · 28572
Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of Capita’s performance in armed forces recruitment since March 2022.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 7 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
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of Capita’s performance in armed forces recruitment since March 2022.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 17 December 2024 to Question 19640 to the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois). The new Government inherited a crisis in retention and recruitment. We have made it a priority to address t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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