Question follow-through · 50903
Territorial Army: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether experiencing acne (a) in the past and (b) at present is used as a criterion within the online recruitment process for selecting potential future members of the territorial army.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 8 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
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether experiencing acne (a) in the past and (b) at present is used as a criterion within the online recruitment process for selecting potential future members of the territorial army.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The Government inherited a recruitment crisis from the last Government.The Defence Secretary has undertaken to review the current recruitment policies and has already announced several changes to prior outdated approaches. An update to Joint Service Publi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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