Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason was the Short Service Limited Commission discontinued in 2007.

The Short Service Limited Commission had, by 2007, already been superseded by the Gap Year Commission. In mid‑2007, the Gap Year Commission was discontinued due to a shift in policy emphasis toward people programme measures judged to deliver wider recruitment and retention benefits.

The scheme was later reintroduced in 2015 and was subsequently integrated into what is now the Army Internship Programme.