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Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 18 October 2025UIN 79264

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 70 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 8 July 2025, what the top ten people policies are that will be rewritten by May 2026.

Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones

The following ten policies are planned to be rewritten by May 2026:

  • The Tri-Service Resettlement and Employment Support Manual
  • Regulations for the Mobilisation of UK Reserve Forces
  • Centre-Determined Policy for Career Management and Admin of Tri-Service Positions and assignments
  • Tri-Service Regulations for Leave and Other Types of Absence
  • Redress of Individual Grievances: Service Complaints
  • Defence Training and Education Policy and Guidance
  • Defence Policy for Administration of Personal Development on JPA
  • Operational Movements and Tracking
  • Behaviours and Informal Complaints Resolution
  • Zero Tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Work has commenced on the first five of these policies with the subsequent five subject to change.

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