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Armed Forces: Recruitment

Commons · Question 38488 · Tabled 14 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 24 Mar 2025

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Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of additional service personnel who will be recruited to the (a) Royal Navy, (b) British Army, (c) Royal Air Force in the 2027-28 financial year, in the context of increase

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 24 Mar 2025

The increase in defence spending is a vital part of ensuring the nation can realise the ambition which will be set out in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). All Defence personnel - in and out of uniform - are at the heart of Defence's plans. The SDR has ...