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1124540

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if she will undertake a review the pay settlement for civilian seafarer Ratings working in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	250436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>All Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) personnel are civilian Ministry of Defence employees and are therefore subject to HM Treasury Civil Servant Pay Guidance. As a result the pay award for RFA personnel for 2018-19 was 1.5% and there are no plans to review this settlement.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 09/05/2019 15:08:28 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1060836

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he will match the commitment made by his Department to staff based in London by setting the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation as a minimum hourly rate for staff based outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	220803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has not formally signed up to the National Living Wage rates, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. While the Secretary of State exceptionally agreed as part of the 2015 pay deal to match the Living Wage Foundation's London Living Wage rate, this did not extend to other staff as the levels of pay for staff outside London were considered appropriate. The Department continues to review all salaries and the position taken in 2015 has not changed.</p><p>I can confirm that the MOD continues to pay above the Government's National Living Wage and that arrangements are in place to increase salaries when the hourly rate announced by the Chancellor in his November 2018 Autumn Statement is increased to £8.21 with effect from 1 April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 18/02/2019 16:39:29 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1052307

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times his Department, excluding executive agencies and non-ministerial departments, was taken to an employment tribunal for disability discrimination in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	215107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 the Department, excluding executive agencies and non-ministerial departments, was taken to an employment tribunal for disability discrimination four times.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/02/2019 16:23:19 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045996

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Cleaning Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which service providers are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for his (a) Department and (b) executive agencies; if he will list all of the services delivered by third party contractors to his (i) Department and (ii) executive agencies; and how many people working for those third party contractors are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.g Wage Foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	211158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>This question is interpreted as pertaining to those third-party contractors operating in the UK under UK law.</p><p> </p><p>The service providers who are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) are Aramark Defence Services, Compass Contract Services (UK) Ltd and Sodexo.</p><p> </p><p>The service providers who are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for Executive Agencies are EMCOR UK and Amey Community (Defence) Services.</p><p> </p><p>The list of all (cleaning) services delivered by third party contractors for the MOD on behalf of the Department are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Common Services:</p><ul><li>Office accommodation</li><li>Communal areas – meeting rooms, break out areas, corridors, stairs, communal seating areas</li><li>Accommodation – Mess and Single Living Accommodation blocks and some enhanced cleaning at specialist facilities (e.g Ilford Park Veterans Home)</li><li>Ablutions</li><li>Workshop and training areas (including Hangars)</li><li>Catering facilities and dining areas</li><li>Window cleaning</li><li>Laundry and dry cleaning</li><li>Specialist cleaning (high value carpets, curtains, chandeliers, high beams, external fire escapes)</li></ul><p> </p><p>Medical/Healthcare Cleaning:</p><ul><li>Medical facilities</li><li>Dental facilities</li><li>Specialist facilities (Stanford Hall)</li></ul><p> </p><p>Domestic Assistance – Provision of cleaning service to entitled officers</p><p> </p><p>The list of all (cleaning) services delivered by third party contractors for Executive Agencies are as follows:</p><ul><li>Offices</li><li>Meeting Rooms</li><li>Ablutions</li><li>Laboratory / Production areas</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on how many people working for these contractors are paid rates recommended by the Living Wage Foundation. All of the employees of the above third-party contractors working in the Department or its Executive Agencies are required to be paid at a minimum, the national living wage or national minimum wage in accordance with statutory rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 30/01/2019 16:54:50 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

982686

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made in making available surplus operational ration packs to organisations supporting people who are homeless.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	175981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is reviewing the current disposal process for operational ration packs to reduce wastage, and to investigate whether elements from out of date packs could be donated.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/10/2018 15:29:29 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

882638

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	135700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) pays over and above the National Living Wage that was increased to £7.83 per hour in April 2018.</p><p>The MOD has not formally signed up to the Living Wage Rates, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. In 2015 the then Secretary of State for Defence agreed that all London-based staff should be paid at least the equivalent of the Living Wage Foundation's London Living Wage rate. MOD continues to pay above that rate.</p><p>Contracted workers' rates of pay, where paid by their parent company or recruitment agency, are not visible to the MOD.</p><p>The MOD does not employ individuals on zero-hours contracts.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/05/2018 15:47:01 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

820799

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps his Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	122217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Ministry of Defence policy is to provide support to its civilian employees who have caring responsibilities for a partner or dependant, including through special leave and flexible working arrangements. We also provide an Employee Wellbeing Service, designed to help civilian staff identify other sources of support, both inside and outside the Department.</p><p>As part of the Defence People with a Significant Illness project, work is being undertaken to develop policy and guidance to support the needs of the carer and the cared for, including both Service personnel and civilian staff, from point of diagnosis through to, if necessary, end of life care.</p><p>The Department is also developing a Flexible Engagements System (FES) for Service personnel who wish to vary their deployability, or to work part-time, to better fit their Service career around family life. FES will enable regular Service personnel to temporarily change the nature of their service, enabling flexible working or protection from deployment in order to support an individual's personal circumstances where operational demands allow. The opportunity to request flexible working arrangements will apply to all Service personnel and will be introduced from spring 2019. The primary legislation to enable FES is currently before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 22/01/2018 16:11:48 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

598241

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Yemen: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of enforcement of international humanitarian and human rights law in respect of children by the UN Human Rights Council in Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	47782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>We worked hard with international partners to secure a strong resolution to help the situation on the ground in Yemen. The resolution includes a commitment to increase the number of international human rights experts in the Yemen Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) operation, making clear the independent mandate for OHCHR to conduct their own investigations. The resolution also maintains the technical cooperation programme for OHCHR to strengthen the National Commission in Yemen, which we believe will make a difference on the ground. We look forward to reports from the OHCHR next year.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 18/10/2016 14:42:32 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

573693

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Israel on that government's resettlement programme and the demolition of Susiya and Umm al-Hiran.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	44232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The village of Susiya is located in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whilst the village of Umm al-Hiran is located within Israel.</p><p>Our Embassy in Tel Aviv has repeatedly raised our opposition to demolitions with the Israeli authorities, including our specific concerns about Susiya, and urged them to provide a legal route for Palestinian construction. On 18 August, officials from the British Consulate General in Jerusalem, along with an official from our Embassy in Tel Aviv, visited Susiya again to highlight our serious concern and demonstrate our continuing support for the village. We most recently raised Susiya with Defence Minister Lieberman on 24 August.</p><p>The UK has been encouraging the Israeli authorities and Bedouin communities to find a satisfactory solution to Umm al-Hiran, respecting the equality of all of Israel’s citizens in a way which avoids forcible relocations.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 07/09/2016 15:41:22 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

384389

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for his Department and its subsidiary agencies are paid less than the living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	3315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>No direct employees of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) are paid less than the living wage.</p><p>Agency Workers are engaged through a managed service contract. The minimum hourly rates paid are greater than the Living Wage.</p><p>A complete record on the pay arrangements for staff employed by companies contracted to provide services to the FCO is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 29/06/2015 15:27:32 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead