Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter of 21 December 2023 from the Minister of Defence People and Families on the Haythornthwaite review of armed forces incentivisation, reference 4/4/2/26/ap, what his planned timetable is for fully delivering a new Pan-Defence Skills Framework.

The Pan Defence Skills Framework will be fully delivered by the end of March 2025. The process of civilian skill authoring is almost complete, with military skill authoring well underway. User trials have been conducted within test IT environments and will move onto the live IT system through the next few months. Rollout is planned to start in May 2024 and will be aligned with the training and deployment schedule of units, to cause minimal disruption and to ensure the users have a good experience with support and guidance available.