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1696440

registered interest
date	15/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Middle East: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to increase the number of aid shipments to the Middle East.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Defence works very closely with and to support the FCDO, who lead on humanitarian support, to make sure that aid shipments are delivered as rapidly, efficiently and safely as possible. We have supported the delivery of hundreds of tonnes of life-saving aid for Gaza, including by air, land and maritime routes. We are doing everything we can to get far more aid in, exploring new routes and pressing Israel to open more crossings and lift restrictions. The Secretaries of State regularly engage on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 25/03/2024 14:40:29 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1696441

registered interest
date	15/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ukraine: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to increase military support to Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK continues to be at the forefront of international efforts to end Russia's illegal war in Ukraine. We will be providing £2.5 billion of military support to Ukraine in financial year 2024-25. This includes a £325 million package of cutting-edge drones and £245 million to procure and invigorate supply chains, to produce artillery shells to help fight Putin's illegal invasion.</p><p>We will train an additional 10,000 Ukrainians in the first half of this year as well as co-leading new maritime and drone capability coalitions alongside Norway and Latvia respectively.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 25/03/2024 14:41:19 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1696240

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to future proof the Armed Forces against new security threats.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The Defence Command Paper 2023 (DCP23) set out how the Armed Forces and wider Defence would modernise and adapt to the changing context.</p><p>Our Armed Forces are operating in an increasingly contested world and we are committed to ensuing our Armed Forces have the equipment to defend our nation and maintain strategic advantage. To deliver this, we have increased the budget for the Equipment Plan to £288.6 billion over the next decade. As outlined in the Defence Command Paper 23, we are focusing even more on Artificial Intelligence, digital capabilities, and assuring our supply chains, to make sure we adapt to changing technology and emerging threats.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 21/03/2024 15:58:14 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1696241

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	NATO
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK meets its obligations to NATO.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK continues to be a leading ally in NATO. We contribute to every NATO mission and offer the full spectrum of our defence capabilities to the Alliance. We meet NATO's Defence Investment Pledge to invest at least 2% of GDP on defence, and have done so in every year since 2006.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 21/03/2024 13:04:12 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1357287

registered interest
date	21/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff have been processing applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme in each month from 1 April 2021 to 21 September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	52592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) was launched in April 2021 by a team of seven civil servants.</p><p>The original ARAP team has been augmented with significant additional civilian and military resource. As at 21 September, a total of 43 additional civilian staff and 103 military staff had been deployed for periods varying from a few weeks to six months to support the delivery of the ARAP programme.</p><p>Records have not been kept to show the monthly figure of staff working on the ARAP team. This would not be an accurate reflection of the number of staff who have supported the delivery of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 18/10/2021 11:18:11 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1354949

registered interest
date	13/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2021 to Question 43388, how many Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy applications were received up to the period 1 to 31 August 2021; and how many of those applications were subsequently rejected.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	48342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2021 answer text <p>From the start of the scheme in April to 31 August 2021, 60,000 applications for relocation to the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) were received.</p><p>Approximately 52,350 were rejected, either at the initial triage or following detailed casework.</p><p>Of the total applications received during this period, 6,800 are still being processed by a casework team. In many cases, more information has been requested so that the most appropriate eligibility decision is made.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 17/09/2021 12:10:39 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey previous answer version 22042 answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1353012

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Interpreters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of interpreters working for the British armed forces were successfully evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Pitting.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	43649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>Under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), more than 7,000 current and former Locally Employed Staff (LES) have now been relocated to the UK, with around 5,000 of these being evacuated during Operation Pitting.</p><p>The ARAP scheme is not time-limited and will endure, remaining open to all who risked their lives supporting the UK's mission in Afghanistan and to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for their support, including interpreters.</p><p>In May 2021, the ARAP scheme was expanded so that contracted interpreters who supported military operations were eligible for relocation by default. The UK Government agreed that contracted interpreters working in public facing roles at our Embassy in Kabul should therefore also be eligible.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 09/09/2021 10:42:52 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1353013

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of applicants that had been accepted under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy were not evacuated as part of Operation Pitting.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	43650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>Regrettably we have not been able to evacuate all those we want to, despite the huge efforts that have been made. We have identified 311 individuals and their families who are eligible for relocation under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and were called forward for evacuation under Operation Pitting, but have not yet arrived in the UK. We are working hard to contact all of those individuals to confirm their status. Some have already made their way to third countries.</p><p>The nature of the security situation in Afghanistan, and our responsibility to keep our people safe, meant that we were not able to evacuate everyone we wanted to. We are continuing to work as hard as we can to relocate more people and are looking at all possible avenues to facilitate relocation, from third countries if possible, for those ARAP eligible people who have not arrived in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey grouped question UIN 43502 43523 question first answered 09/09/2021 16:08:57 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1353014

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of applicants who had applied to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy but had not yet received a decision were not evacuated as part of Operation Pitting.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	43651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>Everyone coming to the UK on evacuation flights from Afghanistan was subject to rigorous security checks to make sure that the UK's national security is protected. Our focus was on evacuating as many as possible who had been found eligible and, as a result, only those who had been found eligible were called forward.</p><p> </p><p>The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) for those who worked with the UK in Afghanistan is not time-limited and will endure. We continue to work flat out to process all outstanding applications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 09/09/2021 16:09:25 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1353015

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will confirm that (a) applicants who have previously applied to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy do not need to reapply and (b) the timing of their application did not affect whether they were prioritised under the triage system.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	43652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) remains open and our commitment to those who worked alongside UK forces in Afghanistan is ongoing. We continue to receive a large quantity of enquiries and applications and have plans in place to work through the backlog of correspondence to ensure they are all responded to in the most appropriate way. All previous applications will be processed as swiftly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Prioritisation of cases is done according to the individual's status, and the potential threat they face, and not by when they were received.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 09/09/2021 16:11:07 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan