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For any copyright, please send me a message.  Wannabe soldiers are ditching their dreams because the recruitment process is so complicated and slow, with 116,300 giving up last year.  The process, overseen by private contractor Capita, takes five months – and the Army is now more than 7,000 below its 82,000 target.  Ex-Labour Defence Minister Kevan Jones blames the mess on the Ministry of Defence outsourcing recruitment to Capita in a ten-year, £1.3billion partnership project.  He said: “It takes so long to go through that many ­people just give up. This disastrous contract needs to be ended and Capita sacked.”  The deal with Capita was signed in 2012 but it has failed to meet recruitment targets every single year.  MoD figures show in 2014-15, 79,000 dropped out, with 77,000 the following year and 120,000 in 2016-17. In 2017-18 80,000 withdrew.  Defence Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan admitted the main reason was them ­“voluntarily disengaging from the process”.  A Capita spokesman said the time between starting an application and getting a training date had fallen from 205 days in 2017-18 to 159 days.  They ­insisted things were improving, also pointing out “increases in ­application and enlistment numbers”.

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