Question follow-through · 112280
Cadets: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help improve female participation rates in the cadet forces and the percentage of female personnel serving in the armed forces.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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- Defence: Procurement · 16 Apr 2026
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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
10 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help improve female participation rates in the cadet forces and the percentage of female personnel serving in the armed forces.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2026
Answer published
We are proud of the gender diversity within the cadet organisations. As of April 2025, girls made up 36% of cadets in the community Cadet Forces and 39% in the Combined Cadet Force (CCF), with the proportion of girls growing in both settings since April 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Defence: Procurement
16 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many new defence procurement contracts have been awarded to domestic manufacturing companies so far Parliament; and what percentage have been outsourced to companies overseas.