Question follow-through · 62497
Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 57929 on Armed Force: Recruitment, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new gap year schemes in attracting recruits from underrepr
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 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
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 57929 on Armed Force: Recruitment, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new gap year schemes in attracting recruits from underrepr
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Gap Year scheme is intended to provide a novel means of entry into the Armed Forces. This is an attractive voluntary employment scheme for school leavers, whatever their background. It will provide excellent military basic training that promotes teamw...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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