Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Regular: Reserve Cost Comparison Model.

The Regular Reserve Cost Comparison was undertaken in 2011 for the Independent Commission to review the United Kingdom's Reserve Forces using the best data available at the time. I refer the right hon. Member to paragraph 97 of their report. However, due to improvements in the way the data is collated and the package offered to Reservists, its findings do not reflect the current position.

Further work is under way to refine the comparison and I would be happy to write to the right hon. Member to summarise the findings when this work completes.