Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of recruitment by the Royal Military Police.

The Royal Military Police has achieved around 80% of its regular soldier and 100% of regular officer recruitment targets in 2017/18 and expect to achieve similar results this year.

The Army have in place a comprehensive improvement plan to increase applications to join the Army, including the Royal Military Police. The 2019 'Your Army' marketing campaign has seen over 10,000 people apply to join the Army as Regular soldiers in January alone, with applications at a five-year high.