4th Report – The Armed Forces Covenant
Select Committee
Defence Committee
HC 572
8 April 2025
Government response
4th Special Report – Government response to The Armed Forces Covenant report · published 16 Jun 2025
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
Fragmented evidence hinders understanding of Armed Forces Covenant effectiveness and accountability.
Conclusion
The evidence available to help us understand how well the Covenant is working is currently very fragmented. This makes recognising success, learning lessons and holding organisations to account difficult. The Minister told us there were ‘plans afoot’ to create structures …
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Government Response Summary
The MOD acknowledges fragmented data and the importance of improving data collection and governance, describing ongoing stakeholder engagement, roundtables, and a planned annual conference in July 2025 to facilitate knowledge sharing.
Ministry of Defence
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
Require Whitehall departments to provide annual updates on Covenant implementation and outcomes.
Conclusion
To enable proper scrutiny of cross-government efforts to implement the Covenant, Whitehall departments should provide an annual update on actions they have taken to uphold the Covenant as part of the Covenant Annual Report, along with outcomes. Departments should–when requested …
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Government Response Summary
The government will engage with other departments to consider how they can best report on their Covenant obligations and the MOD will commit to providing evidence, while the Minister will continue to encourage other departments to do the same.
Ministry of Defence
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