Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 July 2017.
Michael Fallon
The Secretary of State for Defence
12:00,
10 July 2017
That is not the view of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. As I have just indicated to the House, the pay review body believes that its settlement, recommended last year, does maintain pay comparability with the civilian sector. Some 8,000 people joined the armed forces in the last 12 months, but when the pay review body comes to make its recommendation for next year, it will of course look specifically at the evidence on recruitment and retention—and it does that in a way that some other review bodies are not able to do.