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760070

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in the operations directorate conduct searches for media reporting of violations of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen; and how many of those staff have a working knowledge of Arabic.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	10373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>Officials in the Ministry of Defence's Operations Directorate work with a network of staff in wider Defence teams, other government departments, and staff in our Embassies to identify reports of potential international humanitarian law violations from a broad range of English and Arabic language press and social media sources. This network includes staff with Arabic language skills.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 10374 question first answered 11/10/2017 15:41:17 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

760071

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether officials in the operations directorate responsible for conducting searches for media reporting of violations of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen search Arabic-language press and social media; and whether those reports are included in the Ministry of Defence Database.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	10374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>Officials in the Ministry of Defence's Operations Directorate work with a network of staff in wider Defence teams, other government departments, and staff in our Embassies to identify reports of potential international humanitarian law violations from a broad range of English and Arabic language press and social media sources. This network includes staff with Arabic language skills.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 10373 question first answered 11/10/2017 15:41:17 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

760665

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Armed Forces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces personnel are deployed in Saudi Arabia.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
	uin	105188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>As at 15 September 2017 there are currently 105 UK Armed Forces personnel deployed in Saudi Arabia.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/10/2017 15:40:44 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

760842

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of civilian casualties killed in Saudi Arabian air strikes in Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	105302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not make an assessment of the number of civilian casualties as a result of Saudi Arabian air strikes as we do not have access to all the information that would allow us to do so accurately.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/10/2017 15:40:12 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

765812

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Military Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many countries his Department currently provides military aid to.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	105974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not use the term military aid to categorise activity. We do though provide a range of support and assistance to countries across the globe through defence engagement and financed through the Defence Assistance Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD's Defence Assistance Fund supports a variety of defence engagement activities designed to provide practical help and assistance to the nations concerned, at the same time contributing to the UK's own security objectives, including by developing defence relations and increasing UK influence. Assistance may include the provision of military training and education. Defence engagement helps to build the capacity of the recipient nation to address security challenges, both domestically and on the wider stage, including those of terrorism and violent extremism, helping keep Britain safe.</p><p> </p><p>The number of countries in financial year 2017-18 where activity is programmed or has been completed is 116.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defence Assistance Fund expenditure by financial year (£million)</p><p> </p><p>2007-08 - 9.607</p><p>2008-09 - 8.037</p><p>2009-10 - 11.040</p><p>2010-11 - 13.096</p><p>2011-12 - 12.027</p><p>2012-13 - 12.327</p><p>2013-14 - 15.635</p><p>2014-15 - 16.558</p><p>2015-16 - 21.158</p><p>2016-17 - 27.320</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 106311 question first answered 11/10/2017 16:33:03 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

765678

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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, how much each branch of the armed forces spent on advertising and marketing for recruitment purposes in each year from 2010 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	106165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested for 1 January 2015 to 30 September 2017 is shown below. Comparable data prior to that date is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015 (£)</p></td><td><p>2016 (£)</p></td><td><p>2017 to September (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>6,463,372</p></td><td><p>6,698,303</p></td><td><p>10,011,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Navy &amp; Royal Marines</p></td><td><p>13,190,328</p></td><td><p>11,409,885</p></td><td><p>11,621,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Air Force</p></td><td><p>7,948,700</p></td><td><p>9,086,473</p></td><td><p>7,903,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>27,602,400</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>27,194,661</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29,535,746</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/10/2017 16:50:41 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

765813

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Military Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much financial aid the Government gave foreign militaries in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	106311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not use the term military aid to categorise activity. We do though provide a range of support and assistance to countries across the globe through defence engagement and financed through the Defence Assistance Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD's Defence Assistance Fund supports a variety of defence engagement activities designed to provide practical help and assistance to the nations concerned, at the same time contributing to the UK's own security objectives, including by developing defence relations and increasing UK influence. Assistance may include the provision of military training and education. Defence engagement helps to build the capacity of the recipient nation to address security challenges, both domestically and on the wider stage, including those of terrorism and violent extremism, helping keep Britain safe.</p><p> </p><p>The number of countries in financial year 2017-18 where activity is programmed or has been completed is 116.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Defence Assistance Fund expenditure by financial year (£million)</p><p> </p><p>2007-08 - 9.607</p><p>2008-09 - 8.037</p><p>2009-10 - 11.040</p><p>2010-11 - 13.096</p><p>2011-12 - 12.027</p><p>2012-13 - 12.327</p><p>2013-14 - 15.635</p><p>2014-15 - 16.558</p><p>2015-16 - 21.158</p><p>2016-17 - 27.320</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 105974 question first answered 11/10/2017 16:33:03 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd