Nick Smith
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IT Systems (Army Recruitment)
Nick Smith Excerpts(10 years, 11 months ago)
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Mr Hammond
The platform that the Army is putting in place is ultimately intended to deliver for all three services, but at the moment it is the Army that is principally affected by those problems. I understand that Royal Auxiliary Air Force recruitment is going extremely well at the moment.
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)
On 11 December—about a month ago—I asked the Minister of State, Cabinet Office, the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Mr Hurd), why the Government had not planned the ICT better so that the new recruitment processes and Ministry of Defence systems would work better. He said:
“What we have done is to put in proper controls and create the conditions in which smaller and leaner organisations can come in and offer better value.”—[Official Report, 11 December 2013; Vol. 572, c. 225.]
Back in the real world, how many recruitment applications have fallen between the cracks of this failed system?