The PM wants to 'hold' Talented Soldiers Photo: Rory Arnold/10 Downing Street
It will be easier for soldiers to move into the civil service as part of the 'zigzag' plans to retain top talent.
Rishi Sunak said he needs army medics. , military nuclear scientists and other service personnel in order to be able to get other jobs in the public sector, so as not to lose them in favor of private companies.
The idea, known as the «zigzag», will be announced in the Ministry The new command document of the Ministry of Defense, which is expected to be published next week before the summer vacation of deputies.
Speaking on the way to the annual NATO summit in Lithuania, Mr. Mr. Sunak said he was concerned that the military is not «hanging on 'talented troops'.
«We are very lucky in the military — we have people with outstanding experience,» he said.
“I think it's important that we benefit from it more broadly, so we're making it easier for people to move from service to civil service and into government so that we can then benefit from their experience, because that this set of skills is equally valuable to the country and the government.”
Transfers will become easier
According to him, soldiers who have transferred to civilian government positions will be able to return to the army if they want, while the personnel of each of the three services will make it easier to move to another job, he said.
«What? I don’t want us all this time to invest in people, educate them, we are very lucky with them, and then not cling to them,” he said.
“So we want to make it easier to do, so we'll make it easier for them to move into government and civil service and back again.
«But also across all the different services, so we're using a three-service approach to make it easier for them to move between services.»< /p>
He added: “Great examples are army medics moving to the NHS or nuclear engineers who might want to move not only between navies but also to another place and back again.
“So I think that it will be good for the armed forces, it will be good for the country, but it will also be good for those people who will have richer careers and actually more satisfaction and more chances to stay.”
Sunak's second major defense project
The Command Paper is Mr. Sunak's second major defense project as prime minister following the update of the Integrated Review published in March.
It will contain the Department of Defense's final thoughts on how the military should allocate its resources in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Mr. Sunak said this would include new measures to improve the «deployability» of troops.
“I don’t want to get ahead of [the document], but when it comes to the ability to deploy troops, what we have moved to over time, and you will see it in the Command Document, is to increase the maneuverability of our troops. armed forces to be easier to deploy and more flexible,” he told reporters.
“This is not a reflex change. It was an evolution in how we organize the military, this flexibility and responsiveness.”
The paper raises questions about military funding
The command document sparked the familiar debate about the overall level of funding for the British armed forces and the proportion that is spent on each of the three main services.
Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defense, told the House of Commons last month when Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor , acknowledged that «defense will require a larger share of government spending.» . . if it's needed to protect these shores and indeed our people.»
He said that the military was «neglected all the way to Afghanistan and Iraq» and that a large share of government defense spending «might» not be needed faster.”
General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the Army, has publicly criticized the government for planned troop reductions and plans to retire after an unusually short tenure.
Last month, he said the UK could not «hide behind» the armies of its NATO allies and compared the «obsolete» tanks used by the army to «rotary dial phones in the iPhone era.»< /p>< p>Over the past decade, the number of regular soldiers in the British army has decreased by 20% from 97,000 people.
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