Question follow-through · 38690
Air Force and Army: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help reduce the time it takes for (a) Army and (b) RAF applicants to complete the recruitment process.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 3 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
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help reduce the time it takes for (a) Army and (b) RAF applicants to complete the recruitment process.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government inherited a recruitment crisis, with targets being missed every year for the past 14 years and is taking decisive action to get recruitment back on track. This has included the largest pay rise to personnel in decades and scrapping 100 out...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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