Army: Recruitment
Commons · Question 64120 · Tabled 1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to review the criteria for which applications to join the British Army are rejected on medical grounds.
Answer
Answered by Luke Pollard, 7 Jul 2025
This Government inherited a recruitment crisis, with targets being missed every year for the past 14 years, and is taking decisive action to get recruitment back on track. This has included the largest pay rise to personnel in decades and scrapping 100 ou...