Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2018 to Question 121442, on Armed Forces: Recruitment, when those system defects will be fixed; and what assessment he has made of the effect of those defects on recruitment.

I continue to monitor the implementation of the Defence Recruitment Process closely and can confirm that an agreed remediation plan is in place that will see updates to the system occurring through to the end of February 2018. The most pressing defects have been prioritised and a significant number have already been addressed. All Services have implemented Business Continuity Plans to maintain an active recruitment pipeline.