United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 89395
Army: Recruitment
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11 November 2025
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to (a) streamline army recruitment and (b) increase (i) regular and (ii) reserve military personnel numbers.
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11 November 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to (a) streamline army recruitment and (b) increase (i) regular and (ii) reserve military personnel numbers.
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19 November 2025
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As part of the Strategic Defence Review, the Department has committed to increasing the British Army to at least 76,000 full time soldiers in the next Parliament. Under this Government, we have driven improvements to recruiting process, stripping out outd...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-11/89395
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1850998
- uk · wq-1850998 · source updated 19 November 2025