Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where will the Space Command announced on 1 April 2021 recruit from; and for what roles will it recruit.

Space Command is a Joint organisation and will have personnel from all three single Services and the Civil Service. UK Space Command personnel will undertake a range of roles to enable assured access to the space domain and space operations; as well as space workforce development (training and growth) and capability development of space domain military equipment programmes. When fully operationally capable, UK Space Command will provide command and control of all of Defence's space capabilities to achieve Defence's and the UK's ambition for space.