Armed Forces: Recruitment
(asked on 20th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to freeze recruitment of civilian personnel (a) partially and (b) wholly.
This question was answered on 5th September 2023
General recruitment into Defence’s civilian workforce was paused from 10 July until 4 August 2023, although recruitment into the Defence Nuclear Organisation and other ringfenced nuclear roles continued.
From 4 August, essential recruitment was permitted to resume on a case-by-case basis. Recruitment controls are planned to remain in place for 18-months until March 2025. The overall expectation remains that MOD’s civilian workforce will decline by c. 3,000 posts.