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101075

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Airspace
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if two non-cooperating aircraft operating in the same Class G airspace at the same time can be regarded as a Risk to Life.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	212060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The appropriate military Duty Holder for each aircraft fleet is required to undertake a Risk to Life assessment at quarterly intervals. One of the risks considered is that of mid air collision with non-cooperating aircraft. This includes in uncontrolled airspace away from airfields, airports and the airways system (Class G airspace). Following this assessment, the Duty Holder is required to put in place appropriate controls and mitigating measures to ensure that any potential risk is both tolerable and as low as reasonably practicable.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/11/2014 17:26:43 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 25872 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61378

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	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, for what reason his Department did not provide an ICT hosting environment for Capita on time for the Recruiting Partnering Project.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>A number of factors contributed to the problems experienced with the Information Communication Technology hosting environment provided for Capita. I refer the hon. Member to the Secretary of State for Defence's (Philip Hammond) response to an Urgent Question from the hon. Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) on 14 January 2014 (Official Report, column 715).</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/06/2014 14:59:39 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 200298.doc title Hansard Extract 14 January 2014 previous answer version 3504 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61380

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	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 military or civilian personnel in his Department of what rank or grade have been reprimanded for failing to deliver an ICT hosting environment for Capita as part of the Recruiting Partnering Project.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>No personnel have been reprimanded in connection with the delivery of the Recruiting Partnering Project.<br><br>An ICT hosting platform is being provided for Capita.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/06/2014 14:31:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 3505 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61382

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	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 cost to the public purse to date is of the Recruiting and Partnering Project.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The cost of the Recruiting &amp; Partnering Project to date (for the three years from March 2011-2014) is around £300 million. This figure includes the costs of the service provider, CAPITA and costs to the Ministry of Defence such as military and civilian manpower, Information Communication Technology provision and infrastructure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/06/2014 14:32:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 3507 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61383

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	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, for what reason the initial estimate of the additional costs of reverting to the fallback position of a hosting solution provided by Capita for the Recruiting Partnering Project increased from £47.7 million to £70 million; and who was responsible for these estimates.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Philip Hammond) set out on 14 January 2014 (Official Report, column 716) the cost of Capita providing a new Information Technology platform as part of the Recruiting Partnering Project. At the time, these costs were expected to be around £47.7 million directly linked to the change of hosting provision. Since this statement, the £47.7 million has reduced to £42.9 million. <br><br>As previously stated by the Secretary of State on 14 January, there has been an additional cost of around £1 million per month to run the Capita system. This includes costs for additional manpower. <br><br>The Recruiting Partnering Project remains within the overall agreed cost of £1.360 billion.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 200538 question first answered 24/06/2014 14:51:44 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 3506 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

47929

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many suitably qualified and experienced RAF personnel his Department has required for aircraft maintenance in each location in each of the last three years; and how many such posts were vacant in each location in each such year.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	196037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p>A table that provides the data requested is attached.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name 20140416-PQ-02988B-Robertson-manpower-table-FINAL.XLS title Manpower previous answer version 8281 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

48781

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) press officers, (b) internal communications officers, (c) external communications officers, (d) communications strategy officers and (e) other personnel with a communications remit were employed by (i) his Department, (ii) its agencies and (iii) each other non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department on the most recent date for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	196954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>Communicators are employed across Defence and the Armed Forces. They have an important task in explaining to the public, the media, our own people and other audiences – at the local regional, national and international levels - the role of Defence, Defence activities, capabilities and operations. Over the last several years substantial savings have been made across the communications area, and further efficiencies will continue to be made.<br><br>The latest figures for the numbers involved in communications roles as at 31 March 2013 are shown in the attached table, and include all posts for which over 50% of the post's core duties are communications. These figures include both military and civilian posts worldwide. In the 2013 exercise communications staff in Non-Departmental Public Bodies were not surveyed. As such, this data was requested separately.<br><br>Also shown are the figures for 31 March 2010, demonstrating a reduction of 12% (over 160 posts) in this time.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name 2010 Data.doc Table part of answer.doc title Table forms part of the answer previous answer version 9118 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

60748

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Navy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many current suitably qualified and experienced personnel positions are (a) required and (b) vacant in (i) Type 23 and (ii) Type 45 ship crews.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	199752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The information requested, as at 1 May 2014, is shown in the table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td>Required Positions</td><td>Vacant Positions</td></tr><tr><td>Type 23</td><td>2,060</td><td>180</td></tr><tr><td>Type 45</td><td>1.010</td><td>80</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: All figures are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy. All numbers over 100 are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias. Numbers under 100 are rounded to the nearest 5.</p><p> </p><p>None of the existing vacancies is in a post categorised as safety critical and no ship would go to sea without the minimum required complement of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/06/2014 14:30:16 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 2136 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61381

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate (a) the savings generated by each branch of the armed forces having separate recruiting programmes and (b) the annual cost of each such programme.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Each branch of the Armed Forces has a distinctive brand that needs to be marketed separately in order to attract the best candidates. <br><br>Capturing the cost of recruiting across the Armed Forces is a complex and resource-intensive task. For financial year (FY) 2010-11, when both the recruitment budget and recruitment targets were below normal levels, these calculations were not carried out. The costs of recruiting programmes for FYs 2009-10, 2011-12 and 2012-13 are set out in the following table. The cost of recruiting in FY 2013-14 will be available in early 2015.<br><br></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Financial Year</strong></td><td><strong>Royal Navy (£)</strong></td><td><strong>Army (£)</strong></td><td><strong>RAF (£)</strong></td><td><strong>Total (£)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009-10</td><td>41,475,281</td><td>138,743,300</td><td>51,298,179</td><td>231,516,760</td></tr><tr><td>2011-12</td><td>32,017,364</td><td>134,595,989</td><td>38,702,993</td><td>205,316,346</td></tr><tr><td>2012-13</td><td>33,228,059</td><td>122,756,649</td><td>35,430,723</td><td>191,415,431</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As reductions have been made to force levels recruitment levels have been adjusted but not stopped as the Services are required to keep recruiting to maintain the right skills.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/06/2014 15:43:48 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 3509 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61620

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	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, if he will estimate the (a) monthly and (b) total additional cost to date for paying Capita as if it was meeting quantity and quality standards for recruitments in the Recruiting Partnering Project.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	200381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Between its launch in March 2012 to 31 March 2014, the Army has paid Capita £100.380 million for the Recruiting Partnering Project. The Recruiting Partnering Project remains within the overall agreed cost of £1.360 <ins class="ministerial">billion. </ins><del class="ministerial">million.</del><br /><br />My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Philip Hammond) set out on 14 January 2014 the cost of Capita providing a new Information Technology platform as part of the Recruiting Partnering Project (Official Report: column 716). At the time, these costs were expected to be around £47.7 million directly linked to the change of hosting provision. Since this statement, these costs have reduced to around £42.9 million. <br /><br />As previously stated by the Secretary of State on 14 January, there has been an additional cost of around £1 million per month to run the Capita system. This includes costs for additional manpower.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/06/2014 16:43:56 question first ministerially corrected 01/08/2014 09:48:10 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 4680 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson