Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mary Robinson and Selaine Saxby

Monday 26th June 2023 Commons Chamber

[Mary Robinson (Cheadle) (Con)]

6. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that the armed forces have the skills required for the future.

[Selaine Saxby (North Devon) (Con)]

13. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that the armed forces have the skills required for the future.

[The Minister for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families (Dr Andrew Murrison)]

Last week, the Ministry of Defence published the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces incentivisation. Rick Haythornthwaite and his team have done an absolutely brilliant job. The MOD is now working out how to implement the recommendations, but I think it true to say that Haythornthwaite addresses our pressing need to build a firm foundation for an increasingly skills-based future in which the MOD will have to compete extremely hard if it is to continue to recruit and retain the very best.