Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 October 2017.
Mark Lancaster
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
12:00,
23 October 2017
the army, as I say, is 95% recruited and quite capable of fulfilling all its commitments. I am pleased there will be some flexibility in how we apply pay—of course, we have the Armed Forces Pay Review Body, which sets it. It is important to have some flexibility so that we can attract people into the skill sets we are currently short of.