Ministry of Defence: Staff
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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