Question follow-through · 27606
Armed Forces: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's recruitment and retention targets are for each of the three Services for 2026/27.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 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
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's recruitment and retention targets are for each of the three Services for 2026/27.
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2026
Answer published
The 2026-27 Single Service recruitment targets for Regular and Reserve (Officer and Other ranks) are detailed below: The Naval Service (inclusive of the Royal Marines and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary) total Recruitment Targets for all streams for Recruiting ...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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