[3] Headquarters Home Command is located at Montgomery House in Aldershot and provides the Army’s personnel and institutional support.
[3] It assumed responsibility for the delivery elements of the Adjutant General’s portfolio: recruiting; individual training (officers and soldiers); career management and postings.
The Command therefore includes the Military Secretary’s Organisation and the Army Personnel Centre (established 1996 at Kentigern House, Glasgow, responsible for records, careers, pay, pensions, documentation etc), the Army Recruiting and Training Division and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
A total of £1.8 million per year was allocated to the Civil Contingency Reaction Force between 2002 and March 2009 to fund role-specific training.
But the CCRF was never mobilised, primarily because regular forces have been able to respond to crises in a shorter timescale, and a House of Commons answer on 5 November 2009 said that the concept had been discontinued.
As of 2020[update], HQ SJC(UK) is organizing military aid to the civil authorities to support the British government's response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic in the United Kingdom, for example in the process of establishing the NHS Nightingale Hospitals.