Source · Select Committees · Defence Committee
Recommendation 128
128
Accepted
Ministers acknowledge issues with current and future tri-service recruitment contracts requiring improvement.
Conclusion
Our Report did not cover issues with the outsourcing of Army recruitment as that is (currently) a contract managed by the Army rather than DE&S. However, we raised it and the proposed future tri-service recruitment contract with the Secretary of State and the Minister for the Armed Forces. The Secretary of State assured us that he was “looking at it carefully”261 and the Minister told us that he was in no doubt that the future tri-service recruitment contract needed to work better than the current model. For him, this included ensuring that society’s connection with the military was maintained—a difficulty when its personnel were consistently deployed away from the communities from which it needed to recruit.262
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepted all 67 recommendations from the Haythornthwaite Review addressing recruitment and retention, with a formal response outlining next steps and a broad roadmap to be published in 2024.
Government Response
The government responded to this report on 25 April 2024. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗