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1148937

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	HMS Jufair
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy personnel are based in HMS Jufair on a full-time basis.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	99
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>There are more than 100 Royal Navy personnel deployed to the UK Naval Support Facility (UK NSF) in the Kingdom of Bahrain.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 21/10/2019 12:14:59 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418121

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Hunting
	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 July 2015 to Question 5988, whether his Department operates a licensing system for trial hunting on its land.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/09/2015 15:46:02 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418126

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the amount paid out in awards from the the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme is since it was established in April 2005.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Since 2005, some £521 million has been paid under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme; 80 lump sum payments have been of £570,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 9007 9768 question first answered 14/09/2015 15:45:32 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418125

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many awards of £570,000 his Department paid out under their Armed Forces Compensation Scheme since it was established.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Since 2005, some £521 million has been paid under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme; 80 lump sum payments have been of £570,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 9007 9769 question first answered 14/09/2015 15:45:31 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418124

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Hunting
	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 July 2015 to Question 5988, whether any live quarry has been killed during a trail hunt on his Department's land.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/09/2015 15:48:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418123

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints his Department has received from ex-service personnel about the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The number of complaints received from ex-Service personnel about the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme could be provided only at disproportionate cost as each complaint would need to be examined to determine if the individual was ex-Service, and their complaint was about the Scheme rather than their personal award.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 September 2015 to Question 9008 to the hon. Member for Bridgend (Madeleine Moon). Between 6 April 2005, and 31 March 2015, (the latest data currently available) 1,345 former Service personnel registered an additional or exceptional claim, reconsideration or appeal following an initial compensation award under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.</p><p>In addition between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015, the Veterans UK customer service team received a total of 41 complaints relating to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.</p><p>From 1 April 2010 the (earliest date data is available) to 31 March 2015, I received a total of 158 letters from MPs on behalf of their constituents, for which the subject matter was the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. However, this correspondence cannot be broken down in to Serving or ex-Serving personnel, nor can it be broken down by correspondence type such as complaint, claim or enquiry.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/09/2015 15:47:44 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

418122

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Hunting
	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 July 2015 to Question 5988, whether his Department permits hunting exempt under Schedule 1 of the Hunting Act 2004 on its land.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	9690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>All forms of exempt hunting, in line with the Hunting Act, are permissible on Ministry of Defence land, subject to it being compatible with the Defence use, that the Department is satisfied the proposed activity constitutes exempt hunting and that there is a requirement for it.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/09/2015 15:56:16 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1148909

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Navy: Fisheries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many fishing protection vessels the UK operates; under whose jurisdiction those vessels operate; what the names are of those vessels; and how many days each of those vessels has had at sea in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Royal Navy (RN) has four River-Class Offshore Patrol Vessels that also conduct fishery protection activities alongside their Defence tasking. They are HMS MERSEY, HMS TYNE, HMS SEVERN and HMS FORTH. They are used to fulfil the RN’s commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Marine Management Organisation, for fishery protection tasking.</p><p> </p><p>These ships remain under RN Command.</p><p> </p><p>The days spent at sea between 1 January 2014 until 30 September 2019 for all tasking; including the activity under the MOU:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>SHIP</p></td><td><p>DAYS AT SEA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMS MERSEY</p></td><td><p>1,271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMS TYNE</p></td><td><p>1,081</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMS SEVERN (1)</p></td><td><p>848</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMS FORTH (2)</p></td><td><p>268</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Footnote:</p><p> </p><ol><li>HMS SEVERN was decommissioned in October 2017. However, as my right hon. Friend, Gavin Williamson, announced onboard HMS TYNE on 22 November 2018, the three Batch One OPV (HMS MERSEY, HMS TYNE and HMS SEVERN) will be retained for at least two years and may return to the fisheries protection task if required.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>HMS FORTH’s Vessel Acceptance Date was February 2018.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 17/10/2019 14:24:29 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

390248

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Marines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what projections his Department has made of the target strength of the Royal Marines in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	7368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>On current plans the requirements for Trained Regular Royal Marines<sup>[1]</sup> is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2016</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2020</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>[1] This answer is based on the Navy Planning Liability which is used for planning purposes within the Royal Navy and the figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers exclude a number of Royal Marine specialisations such as Chefs; Medical Assistants; Aircrewman Commando and Pilots, included with Royal Navy branches for planning purposes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 20/07/2015 16:15:31 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

390230

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	RAF Regiment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what projections his Department has made of the target strength of the Royal Air Force Regiment of the Royal Air Force in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	7224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The projection for the target strength of the Royal Air Force Regiment of the Royal Air Force for the current and subsequent four financial years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2,290</p></td><td><p>2,160</p></td><td><p>2,130</p></td><td><p>2,210</p></td><td><p>2,230</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 20/07/2015 16:16:49 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones