Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 221W, on Combined Cadet Force, if he will make an assessment of the effect of recruitment to existing community-based cadet forces.

The community cadet forces and Combined Cadet Forces (CCFs) deliver different but complementary elements of the Ministry of Defence's youth engagement strategy.

Where the establishment of a new CCF unit under the Cadet Expansion Programme is proposed, there is an approval process involving the single Service cadet organisations and consideration is given on a case by case basis of any possible adverse affect on local community cadet force units.