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Armed Forces: Recruitment

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 9167, tabled on 11 January 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter sent of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families on the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces incentivisation, reference 4/4/2/26/ap, what his planned timetable is for completing the design work for the first elements of the trials to explore a new total reward approach.

Answered on

18 January 2024

The design work for the first elements of the Total Reward Trial have begun. In line with the recommendations of the Haythornthwaite report, we have adopted the ‘think big, start small and scale fast’ approach. Elements of the trial will be implemented over the next 12 months using an engineering cohort. The learnings will inform further design iterations and tests which can be scaled.