Question follow-through · 48874
Gurkhas: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gurkhas will be recruited in each of the next five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 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
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gurkhas will be recruited in each of the next five years.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
Gurkhas have made an outstanding contribution to the UK through their years of dedicated service to the Crown and are held in high esteem by the British Army and public alike. The number of recruits required for the Brigade of Gurkhas is managed on an ann...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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