New Ministry of Defence figures, released to Defence Committee chair Tan Dhesi, show how many personnel who left the trained regular forces in 2014 later rejoined.

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Estonia is hosting Vigorous Warrior 2026, NATO’s largest multinational military medical exercise, a fortnight-long rehearsal of how the alliance would treat and evacuate the wounded in a full-blown conflict.

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More people are now joining the armed forces than leaving for the first time in years but the Ministry of Defence does not know whether its own measures drove the improvement or whether it can be sustained.

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The PAC has criticised the Ministry of Defence for placing unrealistic demands on how soldiers operate Ajax and has demanded to know how much the long-troubled programme will ultimately cost.

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The Public Accounts Committee has called it “completely unacceptable” that the Ministry of Defence could not properly account for more than £6bn of assets, an error tied to historic Atomic Weapons Establishment spending.

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The Public Accounts Committee has delivered a stinging assessment of the Ministry of Defence’s 2024-25 accounts, warning that years without a credible long-term plan have damaged the UK’s credibility with allies and industry.

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Graeme Downie MP has warned the UK must move away from “slow, traditional cycles” ahead of a parliamentary roundtable examining closer industrial collaboration with Ukraine.

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The Ministry of Defence intends to award Heckler & Koch a ten-year contract worth around GBP 70 million to supply L7A2 general-purpose machine guns and associated equipment to the British armed forces.

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Project Crenic, the British programme developing electronic countermeasures to protect troops, vehicles and bases, passed its critical design review last summer, with the first prototype systems expected in early 2027 for testing.

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that the government’s long-awaited Defence Investment Plan will be published before the NATO Summit in July.

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