Details of significant delays to the Ministry of Defence’s new recruitment project have emerged, with suggestions that the project is currently two years behind schedule.

The Recruitment Partnering Project, which is focused on driving online recruitment to the armed services, may not be operational until April 2015 according to a report in The Times.

Delays have been attributed to a lack of progress in establishing computer hosting systems, resulting in lost applications and missed recruitment targets.

A MoD finance official said: "If the ICT hosting solution is not put in place then the MoD risks not gaining the appropriate number of recruits needed.”

In order to rectify the schedule, the MoD is reportedly considering investing further resources in a new IT platform in order to prevent further delays.

A MoD spokesman said: “In December last year we acknowledged a number of problems with the Army and Capita recruitment partnership. Ministers have gripped these problems and put in place a number of fixes to correct the issues that had emerged.”

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