Recommendation 26

The Department said that ideally it would want to know which of the measures it has taken to improve recruitment and retention are having which of the effects. It has not, however, analysed this. Instead, the Department said it should be doing all these things, because a modern employer should be imaginative and creative about engaging with the modern workforce. It thought that this engagement is necessary to ensure that it can attract people with the skillsets the Armed Forces need, such as cyber, engineering and digital, into a military career.50 49 Qq 50 and 56 50 Q 68 17