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1713826

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	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 17 April 2024 to Question 21043 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many people (a) have been relocated and (b) are due to be relocated in the next 12 weeks under the ARAP scheme as a result of such a reassessment.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	23742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer to Question 23497. The Ministry of Defence is working hard to review ineligible decisions made against applications from the Triples and other specialist units where we hold credible evidence, and I will update the House when the review is complete.</p><p>When any individual is found eligible under ARAP the Ministry of Defence works to ensure relocation occurs as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 30/04/2024 10:09:58 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1713848

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army Foundation College: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Army Foundation College is next due to be inspected by Ofsted.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	23746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Ofsted inspected the Army Foundation College (Harrogate) 20-21 March 2024, and the report is expected imminently. The report will be published.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 30/04/2024 10:10:18 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1713424

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the (a) name, (b) rank upon leaving and (c) year of joining company of all former (i) Army, (ii) Royal Navy and (iii) Royal Air Force officers at one star level or above who have left the service to work for Boeing over the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Rayleigh and Wickford
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Francois
	uin	23418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>We can confirm that, under Business Appointment rules, no One or Two Star military officers have reported to the Ministry of Defence that they have taken or are planning to take up a job with Boeing during the past five years. Please note that this is a voluntary process and former officers may have taken up posts without informing the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Three and Four Star military personnel are required to inform the Government Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) about the first job they intend to take after leaving the Armed Forces. This information is held by ACOBA and can be requested at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/advisory-committee-on-business-appointments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/advisory-committee-on-business-appointments</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD started to monitor Three Star and Four Star Business Appointments from 2023-24. In the past year no officers at those grades have taken up a post with Boeing.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 30/04/2024 09:57:39 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois

1713500

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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, what recent estimate he has made of when the review of applications to the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy that were made by people who supported UK Special Forces in Afghanistan will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	23441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The reassessment began on 26 March 2024 and will take approximately twelve weeks to complete. Some complex cases might extend beyond the 12 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>I will update the House once the review is completed, but my immediate priority is processing the cases as swiftly and diligently as possible and ensuring that the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme criteria is consistently applied to all applications being reassessed.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 15:19:51 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1713561

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Strategic Command: Staff
	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 22 April 2024 to Question 22255 on Strategic Command: Vacancies, when he plans to complete the review into his Department's civil service workforce requirement.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	23403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>Work is ongoing following the Chancellor’s announcement in the Autumn statement requiring Departments to cap Civil Service headcount and then reduce to 2019 levels.</p><p> </p><p>By 2028, we need a refocused Civil Service workforce which will undertake prioritised projects through agile, skilled, and right sized teams who are delivering ‘what really matters’. We will create an environment where we are empowered, included, and recognised for who we are and what we do.</p><p> </p><p>Defence Design is driving system change to unlock a more effective and productive environment which in turn will enable this change in the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Our civil servants play an essential role in delivering Defence outcomes and we hope that by utilising opportunities for process redesign, digitisation, corporate service modernisation and prioritisation that we can achieve better outcomes and accelerate the changes to our ways of working which are required to achieve a smaller, more productive and more agile civilian workforce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 14:58:52 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1713572

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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 17 April 2024 to Question 21043 on Afghanistan: Refugees, in how many and what proportion of reassessed ARAP applications has the applicant been assessed as being eligible for relocation.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	23497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The reassessment of applications from those with credible links to former Afghan specialist units began on March 26 and I can confirm that overturned decisions have already been communicated to applicants.</p><p> </p><p>As I stated in my answer to Question 21043, my immediate priority is to process all cases as diligently and swiftly as is possible. I will update the House once the review is completed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 15:20:29 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1713581

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Mefloquine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claims have been made by current or former service personnel in respect of adverse effects caused by being prescribed the drug mefloquine, larium, in each of the last three years for which information is available; and of those, how many have been resolved.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	uin	23368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department has been notified of a total of 686 common law claims relating to the alleged adverse effects of Lariam. A breakdown of claims in each of the last three years is not readily available, however, most the claims were notified prior to April 2021. The Ministry of Defence continues to resolve claims wherever possible.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 14:58:04 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1713165

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	RAF Lossiemouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at RAF Lossiemouth.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>As at 1 January 2024, there were 2,310 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at RAF Lossiemouth.</p><p> </p><p>Please note the following caveats:</p><p> </p><ol><li>All UK Forces Service personnel comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel , Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve, and Full-Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes trained and untrained personnel.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10. However, numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/04/2024 13:20:07 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1712735

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Navy: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average amount of time is that an (a) officer and (b) rating serves in the Royal Navy.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	22853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Making the Royal Navy (RN) an attractive and rewarding employer remains of paramount importance. Promoting retention efforts to extend the length of service of our sailors enables the RN to retain its skilled personnel, whose experience, and tradecraft are essential to the organisation.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the average length of service on exit by trained RN Personnel (including Royal Marines) between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2023.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Rank</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rating</p></td><td><p>12 years 2 months</p></td><td><p>8 years 7 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Officer</p></td><td><p>21 years 0 months</p></td><td><p>20 years 3 months</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Average length of service has been calculated by the length of current service, against the difference between the sailor’s joining and exit dates.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 30/04/2024 10:11:08 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1712737

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) ratings were employed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	22855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Below are the requested figures of RFA personnel from 2010, broken down into Total Number, Officer and Rating figures.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1. Royal Fleet Auxiliary Total Strength by Officer and Rating, as at 1 January 2010 to 1 January 2024</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Officers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Ratings</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2010</p></td><td><p>2315</p></td><td><p>813</p></td><td><p>1502</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2011</p></td><td><p>2314</p></td><td><p>787</p></td><td><p>1527</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2012</p></td><td><p>1959</p></td><td><p>697</p></td><td><p>1262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2013</p></td><td><p>1887</p></td><td><p>667</p></td><td><p>1220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2014</p></td><td><p>1821</p></td><td><p>640</p></td><td><p>1181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2015</p></td><td><p>1850</p></td><td><p>662</p></td><td><p>1188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2016</p></td><td><p>1923</p></td><td><p>731</p></td><td><p>1192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2017</p></td><td><p>1938</p></td><td><p>726</p></td><td><p>1212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2018</p></td><td><p>1916</p></td><td><p>711</p></td><td><p>1205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2019</p></td><td><p>1887</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>1202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2020</p></td><td><p>1826</p></td><td><p>646</p></td><td><p>1180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2021</p></td><td><p>1828</p></td><td><p>657</p></td><td><p>1171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2022</p></td><td><p>1782</p></td><td><p>656</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2023</p></td><td><p>1736</p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td><p>1099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01 / 01 / 2024</p></td><td><p>1669</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>1046</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures pre-2015 have been included, but this legacy data was obtained through a different data source and via a different system to the one currently used by Navy Analysis. As such, caution should be exercised when comparing figures from these respective periods as they may not be directly comparable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 30/04/2024 10:11:50 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey