Question follow-through · 16875
Reserve Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate has been made of the number of additional members of the UK Active Reserve across each service that will be recruited as a result of the Defence Investment Plan.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 62 calendar days after tabling
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- Army Reserve: Training · 8 Sept 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
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate has been made of the number of additional members of the UK Active Reserve across each service that will be recruited as a result of the Defence Investment Plan.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Defence Investment Plan has set out how we will be investing over £76 billion on people and veterans over the next four years. The £4.2 billion of funding for the Reserves represents the cost of Reserves pay and allowances. The MOD does not routinely ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Army Reserve: Training
8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide additional detail on the commitment to protecting time, funding and equipment for Reserves in training in the Defence Investment Plan, including timescales, benchmarks and KPIs.