The Armed Forces Bill proposes to abolish the 13 existing regional Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations (RFCAs) and replace them with a new "streamlined" national structure. Jesse Norman MP has a piece in The Telegraph which concludes:

The House of Lords has completed detailed Committee consideration of the Armed Forces Bill, with a lengthy debate on the Reserve Forces producing questions which went considerably wider than the provisions of the Bill itself.

In today's House of Lords debate on the Armed Forces Bill, defence minister Lord Coaker introduced a new draft clause to permit formal call-out and recall notices to be served by email as well as by post.

The clause is a lengthy one, and says that

The Government proposes, in the Armed Forces Bill currently before Parliament, to establish a new standalone corporate body to be called the Defence Housing Service.