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1689913

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what purpose the RAF helicopter GZ100 was flown under the call-sign RRR1325 on 9 February 2024 (a) from RAF Northolt to Plymouth between 7.00am and 9.00am, (b) on multiple movements around Devon between 9.00am and 3.30pm and (c) from Plymouth to RAF Northolt between 3.30pm and 5.00pm; how many (i) civil servants, (ii) special advisers, (iii) ministers and (iv) other VIPs were passengers on the aircraft over the course of that day; and what total mileage was recorded by the aircraft on that day.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	14505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Helicopter GZ100, which is part of the Command Support Air Transport fleet, performed a defence tasking on 9 February 2024, travelling between Defence locations within the Southwest. Measurement of military aviation is primarily through recorded flight hours. While we do not record exact track miles flown by military aircraft, the rough total straight line round trip distance between those Defence locations was some 240 nautical miles.</p><p>Regarding passengers, I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given to PQ7873 from 15 of January 2024; “It has been the practice of successive Administrations not to publish granular information relating to the official movements of protected individuals, and/or official travel by any individual to military or secure locations”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 22/02/2024 17:49:03 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1680376

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish his Department's gender pay gap report for 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>There are two constituent components to Defence Gender Pay Gap Reporting as we monitor both the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Civilian workforce and the Armed Forces. We are currently aiming to publish the MOD Civilian Gender Pay Gap Report by 15th February 2024. We were unable to meet the cross-government publication date of 23 Nov 23 due to additional time needed to resolve some data discrepancies. Cabinet Office has agreed to MOD’s delayed publication.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Armed Forces Gender Pay Gap Report is not required to align with the cross-government publication date for the civilian population, and we are currently analysing data within the Armed Forces Continuous Working Patterns Survey to achieve publication by 7 March 2024.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/01/2024 16:46:48 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1679327

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	MOD Boscombe Down: Sloane Helicopters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who was on board the return flight by Sloane Helicopters call-sign G-MAOL from RAF Northolt to MOD Boscombe on 30 November 2023, flight reference KRF17.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	7873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>It has been the practice of successive Administrations not to publish granular information relating to the official movements of protected individuals, and/or official travel by any individual to military or secure locations.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/01/2024 16:18:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1675147

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	MOD Boscombe Down: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when a Minister in his Department last visited MOD Boscombe Down; and for what purpose.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	4978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Rt Hon Tobias Elwood MP visited Boscombe Down in January 2019, in his capacity as the then Minister for Defence People &amp; Veterans. The visit focused on site infrastructure, and to meet some of the Apprentices working there. Since then, a number of senior visits to Boscome Down have happened, including, most recently, a visit was on Wednesday 15 November 23, which was undertaken by Mr Paul Lincoln, Ministry of Defence Second Permanent Secretary.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/12/2023 18:12:02 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1670381

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the statement in the Answer of 14 September 2023 to Question 197421 on Prime Minister: Aviation that nine of the eleven domestic taskings were completed on G-ZAHS, which taskings that included in addition to flying the Prime Minister from Northolt to (a) Inverness on 13 January and (b) Manchester on 3 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	2115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to my answer of 15 November 2023, to Question 119.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 20/11/2023 14:52:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 119 - Prime Minister - Aviation.docx title Prime Minister - Aviation
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1669551

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Sloane Helicopters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2023 to Question 197420 on Aviation: Prime Minister, which contract covered the provision of rotary wing command air transport by Sloane Helicopters for the Prime Minister’s journeys to and from RAF Coningsby on 8 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	1491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave her to Question 117 on 15 November 2023.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/11/2023 17:07:23 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 117 - Sloane Helicopters Clacton-on-Sea.docx title Sloane Helicopters: Clacton-on-Sea
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668348

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for his Department on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>Statistics on Civil Service employment by Department and agency are published by the Office for National Statistics on gov.uk at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable</a></p><p>Statistics for Defence and its agencies can be found at Table 9 for each quarter.</p><p>It is important to note that the structure of Ministry of Defence has changed significantly since 2011, meaning that figures for that year are not directly comparable.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 20/11/2023 11:35:59 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668009

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Sloane Helicopters: Clacton-on-Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 12 September to Question 197420, which contract covered the provision of rotary wing command air transport by Sloane Helicopters for the Prime Minister’s visit to Clacton-on-Sea on 18 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>This provision was under the Command Support Air Transport contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/11/2023 11:40:22 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668010

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 September 2023 to Question 197421 on Aviation: Prime Minister, which plane was used by the Prime Minister to fly from Northolt to (a) Leeds on 9 January, (b) Blackpool on 19 January, (c) Newquay on 9 February, (d) RAF Leeming on 10 February, (e) Anglesey on 23 March and (f) Aberdeen on (i) 31 July and (ii) 2 September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>It has been the practice of successive Administrations not to publish (or otherwise confirm) granular information relating to the official movements of protected individuals and those accompanying them within the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government’s position on Ministerial travel is outlined in the answer of 24 February 2023, Question 143903.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/11/2023 15:24:29 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name Question 143903.docx title Question 143903
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668012

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 September 2023 to Question 197421 on Aviation: Prime Minister, which taskings were completed on G-ZAHS in addition to flying the Prime Minister from Northolt to Inverness on 13 January and to Manchester on 3 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The RAF Command Support Aircraft Fleet primarily provides travel for the command functions of the Ministry of Defence. Utilising irreducible spare capacity, provision is also made for senior Ministers and members of the Royal Household to travel in fulfilment of their official duties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/11/2023 11:41:26 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry