{"value":{"id":1864450,"memberId":360,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister of State, Ministry of Defence ","uin":"HLWS1173","dateMade":"2025-12-16T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","title":"The United Kingdom Reserve Forces External Scrutiny Team Annual Statutory Report 2025","text":"<p>My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Louise Sandher- Jones) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.</p><p>Led by Air Chief Marshal (Retd) Lord Peach, the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations External Scrutiny Team provides an independent assessment on the health of the Reserve Forces on behalf of the Department. I have today placed in the Library of the House a copy of the 2025 report, along with a copy of my response to this report. I am most grateful to the Team for their work.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":true,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1864450/original/2025_UK-Reserve-Forces-EST.pdf","title":"Reserve Forces","fileType":"pdf","fileSizeBytes":8106614},{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1864450/original/20251211 RFCA External Scrutiny Team Report -MinVP to Lord Peach_.pdf","title":"Reserve Forces","fileType":"pdf","fileSizeBytes":167777}]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1864450","method":"GET"}]}