Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 2017.
Tobias Ellwood
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
12:00,
27 November 2017
I am pleased to see that cadets are so popular in the Chamber today.
In 2015, the Government committed £50 million to increasing the number of cadet units in state schools through the cadet expansion programme. The programme targets schools in less affluent areas and is on track to achieve its target of 500 cadet units by 2020.
