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178475

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in receipt of a war disablement pension in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The number of recipients of war disablement pensions in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, can be found below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>89,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>6,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>11,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>3,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other UK</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Unknown</p></td><td><p>345</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Known</p></td><td><p>135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>112,765</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Other UK includes Isle of Man and Channel Islands.</p><p>2. In line with Defence Statistics’ Rounding Policy, all figures of five or more have been rounded to the nearest 5. Due to rounding, the figures provided may not sum to totals.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 223822 question first answered 12/02/2015 17:09:13 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178108

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what provisions are in place to ensure that all military personnel aged under 18 can access higher education, as required by Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is committed to ensuring that all Serving personnel have opportunities to continue their personal development throughout their Service careers. A wide range of courses are available to all Serving personnel at different levels, from basic computer skills to distance-learning degrees.</p><p>The Armed Forces Learning Credits Scheme helps support development for Service personnel. Standard Learning Credits fund small-scale learning whilst Enhanced Learning Credits are designed to provide help towards the cost of gaining further or higher education qualifications. The New Employment Model programme is currently looking at ways to widen the scope of Standard Learning Credits for elective professional and personal development.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2015 17:11:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177130

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether military personnel are permitted to sit or re-sit GCSEs once their initial training has come to an end.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	222945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Members of the Armed Forces can sit, or re-sit, a GCSE at any point in their career, provided they do so through a recognised examination centre. Service Education centres are able to provide this facility free of charge in the UK and when serving overseas.</p><p>Where Service personnel choose to sit examinations at an external Examination Centre, for example where the examination is not offered by their Service Education Centre, financial support is provided through the Standard Learning Credit Scheme which allows Service personnel to claim 80% of course and examination fees (including GCSEs), up to a maximum of £175 per financial year. Standard Learning Credits are unable to be used for an examination resit only, as a course of instruction must be included.</p><p>Military personnel are also entitled to use Colleges of Further Education to attend a variety of education courses and to take examinations and resits, subject to payment of the appropriate fees.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:40:46 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177131

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Corrective Training Centre Colchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether detainees aged under 18 years are accommodated separately from adults at the Military Corrective Training Centre.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	222946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Detainees aged 16 years are always accommodated separately from adults.</p><p>Detainees aged 17 years may be accommodated with older detainees, but only if this is their stated wish. In that event, the decision is subject to a detailed risk assessment.</p><p>Over the 12 months to 31 December 2014, there were no detainees aged 16 years and two detainees aged 17 years held at the Military Corrective Training Centre.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:45:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

174378

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Discharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many early service leavers from the Infantry enlisted (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	221203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of early service leavers from the Infantry is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="5"><p>Calendar Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age on Entry</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1st Jan 14 to 30th Nov 14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 18</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>620</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18 and Over</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,410</p></td><td><p>1,160</p></td><td><p>920</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>The figures are for Trained and Untrained Regular Army Other Ranks and Officers and therefore excludes all Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves.</p><p> </p><p>The figures are for those individuals who left the Army with an Infantry Arm/Service recorded on the Joint Personnel Administration System (JPA) at the point they left. It is possible that a small number of those contained within the figures above were assigned to a non-Infantry Arm/Service when joining the Army, and then subsequently at some point in their Army career transferred to the Infantry.</p><p> </p><p>Figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/01/2015 17:03:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

174380

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Corrective Training Centre Colchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it remains his policy to detain minors at the Military Correctional Training Centre (Colchester).
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	221271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Yes, it is still our policy to detain minors at the Military Corrective Training Centre. The Centre has a safeguarding and child protection policy and is inspected by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons.</p><p>Due regard is given to all the circumstances of the offence and, where detention is warranted, it must be for the shortest term commensurate with the seriousness of the offence or offences for which the offender is being sentenced.</p><p>In the last three years a total of five Service personnel under the age of 18 have been sentenced to detention in the Military Corrective Training Centre.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/01/2015 17:04:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

167713

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the regular Army trained strength requirement is for each year from 2014-15 to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	217016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The trained strength requirement for the Army on 1 April 2014 was 94,100.</p><p>On current plans, the trained strength requirement for each year until April 2020 are approximately:</p><p>April 2015 - 86,500</p><p>April 2016 - 84,300</p><p>April 2017 - 83,800</p><p>April 2018 - 83,000</p><p>April 2019 - 82,400</p><p>April 2020 - 82,400</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/12/2014 17:34:15 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 32796 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

167714

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the regular Army annual recruitment target is for each year from 2014-15 to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	217015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The Army's recruiting targets are determined by training requirements. The regular targets for 2014-15 are around 710 officers and 9,350 soldiers.</p><p>The recruiting requirement for future years has not yet been set. It will be dependent on the most up-to-date available data on wastage rates and training duration.</p> answering member constituency Canterbury answering member printed Mr Julian Brazier question first answered 09/12/2014 17:29:10 answering member 77 label Biography information for Sir Julian Brazier
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

164196

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the announcement of 2 September 2014 on armed forces learning, what the cost was to (a) the public purse and (b) 10 Downing Street of (i) commissioning and (ii) producing the British Armed Forces Learning Resource 2014.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Learning Resource aims to inform and educate schoolchildren and teachers about the work of the British Armed Forces. Although the Ministry of Defence (MOD) provided relevant information, the Resource was produced and edited independently. A small number of hard copies were printed for distribution to delegates at the NATO Summit, for which MOD incurred a cost of approximately £600.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 02/12/2014 16:09:10 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 30686 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156597

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Young People
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 28 October 2014 to Question 211635, what progress he has made on reviewing the cost-benefit analysis of the recruitment and training of minors; and when he plans to publish that report.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The figures used in my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary's letter of 1 August 2014 to the Defence Committee were taken from the final version of the cost-benefit analysis.</p><p>The report has been finalised and a copy is attached<ins class="ministerial">.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name AFC CO's Supervisory Care Directive dated Sep 14.doc title Army Foundation College Supervisory Care Directive 2 file name 20140514-Junior Entry_CostBenefitAnalysis_CITGvs 8_OS (3)[2].doc title Army Junior Entry Training Cost Benefit Alalysis previous answer version 30263 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry 30492 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name 20140514-Junior Entry_CostBenefitAnalysis_CITGvs 8_OS (3).doc title Army Junior Entry Training Cost Benefit Alaysis 2 file name AFC CO's Supervisory Care Directive dated Sep 14.doc title Army Foundation College Supervisory Care Directive answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry question first answered 27/11/2014 16:12:57 question first ministerially corrected 22/01/2015 10:42:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham