Question follow-through · 49940

Army: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the cost of increasing the number of full-time trained regular Army personnel by 3,000.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 2 May 2025
Target answer date: 8 May 2025
Answer: 8 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the cost of increasing the number of full-time trained regular Army personnel by 3,000.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Strategic Defence Review will determine the roles, capabilities and reforms required by UK Defence to meet the challenges, threats and opportunities of the twenty-first century, including for the British Army. The Review has been considering all aspec...

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