Nationality & Status

• Gurkhas should continue to be selected and recruited in Nepal, and remain Nepalese citizens throughout their service.
• Formed units consisting entirely of Gurkhas except for British officers and a few specialists, should be retained as the Brigade of Gurkhas; and Gurkhas should be recruited only to those units.
• The practice of compulsory discharge in Nepal should be discontinued.

Wider Employment & Transfer

• Gurkha soldiers should be eligible to apply for transfer to Corps/Regiments outside the BG, on the same terms as the rest of the Army, after a minimum period of 5 years service in BG.

Recruitment & Selection

• Recruiting and selection of Gurkhas is to remain in Nepal.
• Recruiting and selection of Gurkhas should be owned by the Army Recruitment and Training Division (ARTD).
• Selection standards for Gurkhas to be aligned with British selection arrangements in due course.
• Nepalese women to be recruited into the Brigade of Gurkhas. 

Gurkha Welfare Trust (GWT)

• The GWT support the British Army’s recruiting and selection process should be formalised. 

Training

• The current Gurkha training regime should be retained for the time being.
• The current regime is unlikely to be sustainable and ARTD should lead a programme aimed at alignment with the UK training regime.
• ARTD should commence a programme to develop an acceptable training regime for Gurkha women.

Engagement & Commissioning

Engagements

• Gurkhas to be enlisted to the Versatile Engagement when it is introduced for the wider Army.
• The use of Condonation of service as a manning tool should cease (also applies to Queens Gurkha Officers (QGOs)).

Commissions

• Nepalese DE officer recruits should be sought from within BG.
• The QGO commission, the Short Service Commission (Gurkha) commission and the current system of awarding honorary rank should end.
• The existing QGO population should be transferred to the Short Service Commission (Late Entry) (SSC(LE)), subject to meeting the standard.
• Non-DE candidates in future should be commissioned only to the SSC(LE) within the BG.
• Gurkha Other Ranks (GORs) may seek commissions in other Arms and Corps.
• Current Short Service Commission (Gurkha) officers to be transferred to Intermediate Regular Commission (Late Entry) (IRC (LE) and will compete for posts alongside those from the wider Army.
• Gurkha SSC (LE) officers in future may be selected for conversion to the IRC (LE) according to the same rules as for British SSC(LE) officers now. 
• GORs should be given access to employment opportunities outside the BG on the same basis as British personnel. 
• Gurkha LE officers should be permitted to seek transfer to other parts of the Army according to normal rules after 3 years commissioned service.
• Gurkha LE officers are to be career managed by the Army Personnel Centre and be able to compete equally with their British counterparts. 
• BG units should be permitted a higher proportion of LE officer posts than corresponding units in the wider Army, for practical and cultural reasons, but that this should be subject to review.

Pay, Allowances, Charges

• Gurkha pay adopts full UK rates based on Employment Qualifications.
• QGOs are assimilated on to the normal Army pay scales.

Leave of Absence

• Gurkhas to be provided with the same leave arrangements as set down in JSP 760(1), including all types of special leave such as parental leave, career breaks, and carers' leave.
• Cease Nepal Long Leave.
• Provide Gurkhas with less than 3 years service with the option of having the "Get You Home (Early Years)" package.
• Gurkhas should have the same arrangements available to Commonwealth personnel as set out in JSP 760. 
• Compassionate leave for Gurkhas should be brought into line with JSP 751.

(1)  JSP 760- Tri-Service Manual for Leave and Other Absences (2006).

Pensions

• Gurkhas recruited after 1 December 2006  should join the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 2005 (AFPS 05).
• Gurkhas serving on 1 October 2007 who joined on or after 6 April 2005 but before 6 April 2006 (the 2006 intake) should be offered the option to transfer from the Gurkha Pension Scheme (GPS) to AFPS 05.
• Gurkhas serving on 1 October 2007 who were serving before 6 April 2005 should be offered the option to transfer from GPS to AFPS 75 or AFPS 05.
• Gurkhas who retired between 1 July 1997 and 5 April 2006 should be offered the option to transfer to AFPS 75 or remain in the GPS.  Those who retired from 6 April 2006 but before 1 October 2007 should be offered the option to transfer to AFPS 75 or AFPS 05 or remain in the GPS.
• Gurkhas transferring from GPS to AFPS to be given actuarial value for any service before 1 July 1997, but service given on or after 1 July 1997 to be transferred on year-for-year basis. 

Welfare & Education Issues

• Gurkha children should have the same educational opportunities as their British counterparts.
• Additional welfare support staff should be available to the Army Welfare Service to cope with the additional family welfare issues relating to the introduction of Gurkha MAS.
• Comply with all compassionate arrangements (JSP 751).
• In conformity with practice elsewhere in the Armed Forces, the reimbursement of Gurkha dependants' medical and dental claims is to stop.
• Gurkha Chronic Conditions arrangements to be phased out and brought in line with the new Sickness Army Management (SAM ) scheme.
• Discharge procedures for Gurkhas to be brought into line with wider practice.
• Aftercare provision for Gurkhas and their dependants are to be the same as available for British personnel.
• Present establishment of Pandits to be increased.
• Cultural support to continue within units.
• Headquarters Brigade of Gurkhas secretariat support to be reinforced to become the focus for the provision of Benevolence and Welfare Support to Gurkha ex-servicemen in UK.

TPA

• Let the present TPA lie, and produce a bi-lateral MOU between the UK and GoN.