Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 70 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 8 July 2025, what the top ten people policies are that will be rewritten by May 2026.

The following ten policies are planned to be rewritten by May 2026:

• The Tri-Service Resettlement and Employment Support Manual
• Regulations for the Mobilisation of UK Reserve Forces
• Centre-Determined Policy for Career Management and Admin of Tri-Service Positions and assignments
• Tri-Service Regulations for Leave and Other Types of Absence
• Redress of Individual Grievances: Service Complaints
• Defence Training and Education Policy and Guidance
• Defence Policy for Administration of Personal Development on JPA
• Operational Movements and Tracking
• Behaviours and Informal Complaints Resolution
• Zero Tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Work has commenced on the first five of these policies with the subsequent five subject to change.