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1689412

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
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 16 November 2020 to Question 114286 on Saudi Arabia: Military Aid, whether British personnel continue to accompany the deployment of Giraffe radars to Saudi Arabia.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	14311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Yes. Under Op CROSSWAYS UK service personnel continue to accompany the deployment of Giraffe radars to Saudi Arabia. This capability is defensive in nature and deployed to help Saudi Arabia defend itself from aerial threats to her territorial integrity.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 26/02/2024 17:45:31 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1345249

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
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 8 July 2021 to Question 27328 on Saudi Arabia: Military Aid and with reference to the video published on Twitter on 26 June 2021 of the Armed Forces Minister referencing the number of British troops in Somalia; for what reason that published information was not included in that Answer on operational and personal security grounds.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	29919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>Each request for disclosing information related to deployed personnel is considered on its merits. In the case of the air defence deployment to Saudi Arabia, for operational and personal security reasons, we cannot disclose the number of those deployed.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 13/07/2021 09:57:42 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1343846

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
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 5 July 2021 to Question 24336 on Saudi Arabia: Military Aid, how many UK personnel are deployed to Saudi Arabia with those air defence units.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	27328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>For operational and personal security reasons I cannot disclose the number of those deployed.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 08/07/2021 09:58:34 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1341778

registered interest
date	29/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
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 23 November 2020 to Question 116502 on Saudi Arabia: Royal Artillery, what the total cost to the public purse is for the deployment of British air defence units to Saudi Arabia since February 2020, as at 29 June 2021.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	24336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>To date, the total cost of the deployment in Question is £2,279,953.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 05/07/2021 12:07:15 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1329785

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Saudi Air Force pilots (a) are currently training at RAF Valley and (b) have trained at RAF Valley annually in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	10169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>There are no Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) students currently training at RAF Valley. In the last three years 30* RSAF students have trained at RAF Valley.</p><p>We are unable to breakdown the total number of Royal Saudi Air Force students annually as training spans more than one year and individuals may be counted more than once.</p><p>*In accordance with the Data Protection Act and our obligations in relation to the protection of confidentiality when handling personal data, the data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 09/06/2021 13:08:10 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1280310

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
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 13 January 2021 to Question 134500, on Saudi Arabia: Training, if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) dates between which the training covered by these funds took place, (b) locations where that training took place and (c) names of each course provided to the (i) Royal Saudi Air Force, (ii) Royal Saudi Land Forces, (iii) Royal Saudi Naval Forces, (iv) Border Guard, (v) Saudi Arabia National Guard, (vi) Joint Incident Assessment, (vii) Security Forces and (viii) Joint Forces Command.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	143011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>I am withholding the information as its disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and another state.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 28/01/2021 11:39:20 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1258689

registered interest
date	07/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the 16th Regiment Royal Artillery by (a) rank and (b) role are deployed with the Giraffe radars in Saudi Arabia.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	126103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>For operational and personal security reasons I cannot disclose the number, ranks or roles of those deployed.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 15/12/2020 14:52:45 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1258690

registered interest
date	07/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which organisations in Saudi Arabia the 16th Regiment Royal Artillery is working with during its Giraffe radar deployment to Saudi Arabia.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	126104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>This deployment supports the Royal Saudi Air Force in defending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against the increased air threats that it currently faces.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 15/12/2020 14:54:13 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1258691

registered interest
date	07/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice or assistance Royal Navy personnel have provided to the Royal Saudi Naval Forces on their blockade of Yemen since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	126105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>We have a very small number of liaison officers in Saudi Armed Forces headquarters. The role of these liaison officers is to provide the UK with greater insight into Saudi processes and operations. They remain under UK command and control and work to support vital access for food, fuel, and medicine by providing support to help the UN's Verification and Inspection Mechanism (UNVIM) to facilitate commercial imports into Hodeidah and Saleef ports by giving the Coalition confidence that weapons are not coming in on commercial ships. The critical Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Saleef remain operational and the majority of Yemen's imports are getting in.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 14/12/2020 13:45:40 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1258693

registered interest
date	07/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the Royal Navy by (a) rank and (b) role are stationed at Musandam Naval Base on Jazirat Umm al Ghanam as at 7 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	126106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>There are no Royal Naval personnel stationed at Musandam Naval Base on Jazirat Umm al Ghanam.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 14/12/2020 11:24:12 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle