Question follow-through · 15673
Ministry of Defence: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses numerical reasoning tests as part of the recruitment process for its graduate recruitment scheme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 10 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
3 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses numerical reasoning tests as part of the recruitment process for its graduate recruitment scheme.
7 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence employs a range of assessment methods across its recruitment programmes, including numerical reasoning as part of the recruitment process for the Defence Commercial Graduate Programme.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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