Defence Committee - Ninth Report
Future Army 2020

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 January 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Conclusions and recommendations

1 Introduction

Background

Timeline

Our inquiry

2 The Army 2020 plan

SDSR to Army 2020

Redundancy scheme

Strategic rationale of Army 2020

Role of the National Security Council

Army 2020 structure

Army 2020 plans

Testing and experimentation of Army 2020

Army 2020: financial drivers

"Fighting Power"

"Critical mass" of the Army

Defence Planning Assumptions

Expeditionary warfare

Joint working with the other Services

3 Implementation of Army 2020

Recruitment of Reserves

Relationship between the reduction in Regulars and the increase in

Reservists

Reservist recruitment challenge

Recruitment and Target Data

Army recruitment contract

Reserves White Paper

Defence Reform Bill

Recognition for employers

Response from employers

Role of Reservists

Formed units and sub-units of Reservists and partnering with Regular units

Specialist Reserves

Ex-Regular Reserves

Role of Reservists in reconnecting the Armed Forces and the public

Cost and budget for Reservists

Recruitment age

Basing and Germany

Withdrawal from Germany

SDSR 2015 and beyond

4 Conclusion

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee in Session 2013-14

Oral evidence

Wednesday 5 December 2012: General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of Defence

Wednesday 10 July 2013: Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Commander Land Forces, Major General David Cullen, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, Major General Kevin Abraham, Director General Army Reform, and Major General Ranald Munro, Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves)

Tuesday 8 October 2013: Brigadier (retired) Ben Barry, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Professor Theo Farrell, Head, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and Brigadier (retired) Allan Mallinson, Historian and Defence Commentator; Lieutenant General (retired) Robin Brims CB CBE DSO DL, Chair, Future Reserves 2020 External Scrutiny Group, Major General (retired) Simon Lalor CB TD, member, Future Reserves 2020 External Scrutiny Group, Air Vice-Marshall (retired) Paul Luker CB OBE AFC DL, Secretary, Future Reserves 2020 External Scrutiny Group, Mike Cherry, National Policy Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, and Alexander Ehmann, Head of Government, Parliamentary and Regulatory Affairs, Institute of Directors

Tuesday 5 November 2013: Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Defence, and General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of Defence

Additional written evidence (unprinted)

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Prepared 6 March 2014