Yesterday, during Defence Questions in the House of Commons, Former Armed Forces Minister and Rayleigh & Wickford MP, Mark Francois, called on the “utterly ludicrous Capita” (the outsourcing company who have regularly failed to meet Army recruitment targets), to be finally sacked.
In his question to the Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark said:
“As I used to do my right hon. Friend’s job, may I join the tributes to the outgoing, outstanding Armed Forces Minister? The “Ready for War?” report just referenced identified problems with recruitment as one issue that impedes our ability to fight. The Defence Secretary himself has called our recruitment system “ludicrous”, and he told The Times earlier this month that: “the ‘Amazon’ generation, which is used to getting things instantly, were not prepared to wait a year to join the army.” He is absolutely right, so when will the utterly ludicrous “Crapita” finally be sacked?”
In response, the Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey MP, said:
“I am unable to answer my right hon. Friend’s specific question, but he will be heartened to hear that as a consequence of all that is going on in the world, and the geopolitical uncertainty that requires us to use our armed forces so extensively, in recent months we have enjoyed record expressions of interest in joining His Majesty’s armed forces. Obviously, we need to make sure that the time between expressing an interest and starting train
